TO ATTACH
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TO ATTACHTO ATTACH, crim. law, practice. To an attachment for contempt for the non-
take or apprehend by virtue of the order of a writ or precept, commonlycalled an attachment. It differs from an arrest in this, that he who arrestsa man, takes him to a person of
higher power to be disposed of; but be whoattaches, keeps the party attached, according to the exigency of his writ,and brings him into court oh the day assigned. Kitch. 279;
Bract. lib. 4;Fleta, lib. 5, c. 24; 17 S. & R. 199.
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