Case ID: nc_2/html/0419-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

O‘Neal v. Owens.
    Ah attachment bond is good without attestation. An attachment mm’ issue, if the Plaintiff makes the proper affidavit, whether it be true or not.
    Attachment, and plea in abatement, that the attachment bond was unattested, and no suit could be brought upon it. 2nd, that the Defendant was not about to remove, nor bad shewn any symptom of such disposition, but was at home at the time, when the attachment was levied.
   Per curiam

Although the Defendant was not about to remove, if the. Plaintiff suspected it, so that in conscience, he could swear tin Defendant was about to do so, he may take the oath; and it is the duty of the Justice of Peace to issue the attachment. If the Defendant sustains damage thereby, he has remedy upon the attachment bond. or if the oath be false and malicious, he may indict foj* perjury; but the proceedings shall go on. This has been often decided. As .to the bond being unattested, if was decided lately at Fayetteville, that an action of debt will lie on an unattested bond ; and as to the condition being only to pay in case of failure, such costs and damages as shall accrue thereon — these are not the vv ordsprescribed by the act, but this variance is not pleaded — the only defect alleged by the plea, is non-attestation ;. but had it pointed out the variance, it would not have been fatal; because, the act allows all forms agreeing in substance with that prescribed in the act, to be valid — then what is the meaning of the words used in the condition, “damages thereon” — surely damages to accrue in or by this attachment, and for such damages relief may be had by a suit on this bond. But it is not necessary to give any opinion upon this point — let the pleas be overruled. Á respondeas ouster was awarded.

Note. — Vide Ingram v. Hall, ante 193.