Glossary : arrestment
Definition 1
Scotch law. By this term is sometimes meant
the
securing of a criminal"s person till trial, or that of a debtor
till he
give security judicio sisti. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 1, 2, 12.
It is also the
order of a judge, by which he who isdebtor in a
movable obligation to the
arrester"s debtor, is probibited to make
payment or delivery till the debt
due to the arrester be paid or
secured. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 6, 1. See
Attachment, foreign. where
arrestment proceeds on a depending action, it
may be loosed by the
common debtor"s giving security to the arrester for
his debt, in
the event it shall be found due. Id. 3, 6, 7.
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