Fisher v. Consequa

WASHINGTON, O'rcuit Justice.

In deciding the question, whether a foreign attachment will lie in such a case as the present, we shall come at once to the act of assembly, passed in 1705, which first authorized this mode of proceeding, and inquire what is its true meaning, in relation to the point now under consideration? We do not by this, mean to say, that in no instance ought the *121custom of London, In respect to foreign attachments, to be regarded; it may, and in practice ‘has probably been frequently referred to with advantage. But we should not feel ourselves authorized to extend or to limit…