Lachance v. Dondero

In 1844 the Superior Court of Judicature, then the final court of appeal in this state, in a carefully considered opinion described the nature of the right obtained by an attaching creditor in the property attached under the statute, then Rev. Stat., c. 184, now P. L., c. 332, as follows:

“By the operation of the attachment thus provided for, and regulated, if lands are attached, the debtor or other person in possession is not disturbed in his possession until the levy of the execution; but the attachment fastens itself, as a charge or incumbrance upon the land, from the time it is made, so…