Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    L. Lat Attachment.
    —Attachiamenta bonorum. A distress formerly taken upon goods and chattels, by the legal attaohiators or bailiffs, as security to answer an action for personal estate or debt
    —At-tachiamenta de spinis et boscis. A privilege granted to the officers of a forest to take to their own use thorns, brush, and windfalls, within their precincts. Ivenn. Par. Antiq. 209.
    —Attachiamenta de placitus coronœ. Attachment of pleas of the crown. Jewison v. Dyson. 9 Mees. & W. 544.