Wilson’s Red Book, 1
Supreme Court of Delaware.
July and August, 1792.
Motion for an attachment on proof of nonobedience to a writ o estrepement.
Objected it should be a rule to show cause. Books cited for the rule and against the attachment’s issuing at once: 2 Bl.Comm. 892, 1 Burr, last page. For the attachment were cited: 2 Wils. 137,[1]
1 Str. 185, 1 Wils. 332.
Attachment awarded.
N.B. On affidavit of a contempt of process, attachment issues without a rule to show cause. Vide 2 Wils. 227, 1 Bl.Comm. 637.
[1] In the manuscript this page number appears as “637,” but there is no such page, and 137 is plainly intended.
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