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CHAP. VIII.]
CIVIL PROCEDURE.
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Nature of undertaking, and when necessary.Sect. 190. When the ground of the attachment is, that the defendant is a foreign corporation, or a non-resident of this territory, the order of attachment may be issued without an undertaking. In all other cases, the order of attachment shall not be issued by the clerk, until there has been executed in his office, by one or more sufficient sureties of the plaintiff, to be approved by the clerk, an undertaking not exceeding double the amount of the plaintiff's claim, to the effect that the plaintiff shall pay the defendant all damages, which he may sustain by reason of the attachment, if the order be wrongfully obtained.

Directed to sheriff, and its substance.Sect. 191. The order of attachment shall be directed and delivered to the sheriff. It shall require him to attach the lands, tenements, goods, chattels, stocks, or interest in stocks, rights, credits, moneys, and effects of defendant in his county, not exempt by law from being applied to the payment of the plaintiff's claim, or so much thereof as will satisfy the plaintiff's claim, to be stated in the order as in the affidavit, and the probable costs of the action, not exceeding fifty dollars.

Orders may be issued to different sheriffs.Sect. 192. Orders of attachment may be issued to the sheriffs of different counties; and several of them may, at the option of the plaintiff, be issued at the same time, or in succession; but such only as have been executed, shall be taxed in the costs, unless otherwise directed by the court.

Return day.Sect. 193. The return day of the order of attachment, when issued at the commencement of the action, shall be the same as that of the summons; when issued afterwards, it shall be twenty days after it issued.

Subdivision 3.—Execution and Return thereof.

If several issued, executed in order.Sect. 194. When there are several orders of attachment against the same defendant, they shall be executed in the order in which they were received by the sheriff.

When and how executed.Sect. 195. The order of attachment shall be executed by the sheriff without delay. He shall go to the place where the defendant's property may be found, and there, in the presence of two residents of the county, declare that by virtue of said order, he attaches said property at the suit of such plaintiff; and the officer, with the said residents, who shall be first sworn or affirmed by the officer, shall make a true inventory and appraisement of all the property attached, which shall be