Bloch v. Creditors

On Application for Rehearing.

Miller, J.

The argument on the part of the plaintiff in support of the attachment is in great part addressed to the suspension of payment of the debtor, which, with other circumstances, is supposed to afford a basis for the attachment. Nothing is better settled than that attachments are stricti juris. Until the act of 1868 the causes to authorize the writ were restricted to non-resident debtors, or the ' debtor about to absent himself permanently, or concealing himself to avoid citation. The act of 1868, now part of Art. 240, C. P., supplied the causes for the writ…