Title 52 — Title 52: Civil Actions

Sec. 52-329. Process of foreign attachment. When the effects of the defendant in any proposed or pending civil action in which a judgment or decree for the payment of money may be rendered are concealed in the hands of his agent or trustee so that they cannot be found or attached…

Sec. 52-330. Citing garnishee to disclose. The plaintiff may insert in the writ a direction to the garnishee, except if he is described as an executor, administrator or trustee in insolvency, in which case he shall not be so cited in, to appear before the court to which the proce…

Sec. 52-331. Disclosure by garnishee to officer. The officer serving process upon any person or corporation named as garnishee shall, at the time of service, make inquiry as to the amount then owed by such garnishee to the defendant in such action; and, if such garnishee thereupo…

Sec. 52-332. Corporation as garnishee; disclosure; nonappearance. If any corporation made a garnishee and cited in to disclose was not indebted to, and had no effects of, the defendant in its possession when the complaint was served upon it, it need not appear before the court to…

Sec. 52-333. Liability of garnishee for not appearing. If any garnishee, cited in to disclose before a court held in a town other than that in which he resides, was not indebted to the defendant and had no effects of the defendant in his possession when the writ was served upon h…

Sec. 52-334. Disclosure by garnishee. The court may examine upon oath any garnishee cited in to disclose as to whether, at the time of the service of the foreign attachment, he had effects of the defendant in his hands or was indebted to him, and may hear any other proper evidenc…

Sec. 52-335. Service of garnishee process on corporation. When any corporation, engaged in transacting business in any other town than that in which its secretary or clerk resides, is named as agent, trustee or debtor of the defendant, in any action commenced by process of foreig…

Sec. 52-336. Service on disbursing agent or paymaster of garnishee. When any corporation having a disbursing agent or paymaster, with an office or place of business in this state, is named as garnishee, service may be made on it by leaving with such agent or paymaster, or at his …

Sec. 52-337. Service on bank or trust company as garnishee. Whenever a bank, savings bank, trust company or industrial bank is named as garnishee, process shall be served by leaving a copy thereof with any officer or teller at the garnishee's principal office during its regular h…

Sec. 52-337a. Garnishment of checking account. Section 52-337a is repealed. (1963, P.A. 580; P.A. 76-401, S. 6, 7.)

Sec. 52-338. Service on nonresident garnishee. When the garnishee does not reside in this state, but is engaged in the transaction of business therein by an agent or agents, process may be served on such garnishee by leaving a true and attested copy thereof with such agent or age…

Sec. 52-339. Service on partnership garnishees. When a partnership, the business of which is transacted by one or more of the partners exclusively, or by an agent or agents, is named as garnishee, service may be made upon such partnership by leaving a true and attested copy of th…

Sec. 52-340. Subrogation of factorizing creditor. In actions by foreign attachment, the plaintiff shall be entitled to all the security which his debtor had for the debt or property attached. (1949 Rev., S. 8085.) Equity will allow the creditor to maintain a bill for a disclosure…

Sec. 52-341. Attachment of debt evidenced by negotiable note. When a debt evidenced by a negotiable promissory note has been attached by process of foreign attachment and the defendant has had actual notice thereof, he shall not negotiate or transfer such note during the continua…

Sec. 52-342. Presentation of debt by attaching creditor to decedent's or insolvent estate. When any debt due or to become due any person from an estate of a deceased person in settlement as a solvent estate is attached, the attaching creditor may, within the time limited for pres…

Sec. 52-343. Death of garnishee pending attachment. If any executor, administrator or trustee, in whose hands any debt, legacy or distributive share has been so attached, dies or is removed pending the proceedings either on the original writ or on the scire facias, upon proper su…

Sec. 52-344. Levy of execution as a discharge of garnishee. The taking of any effects or debt by judgment of law out of the hands of an agent, trustee or debtor of the owner thereof, by process of foreign attachment, shall forever discharge such garnishee. (1949 Rev., S. 8089.) W…

Sec. 52-345. Judgment debt attached. Stay of execution. If any judgment debt is taken by foreign attachment, the issue of the execution on such judgment, or its levy, if already issued, shall be stayed during the continuance of the lien of such attachment; and the time during whi…

Sec. 52-346. Garnishments of mortgages. The plaintiff in any civil action in which garnishee process is served upon any person in any way obligated or liable under any mortgage or lien upon real estate, garnisheeing a debt or any part thereof secured by such mortgage or lien, sha…