Case Name: Jamieson v. Brodrick
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1804-04
Citations: 1 Brev. 396
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jamieson v. Brodrick.
Judges: Present, Grimke, Waties, Johnson, Trezevant, and Bre. vard, Justices; Bay, J. absent.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 396–396

Head Matter:
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT,
COLUMBIA,
APRIL, 1804.
Jamieson v. Brodrick.
Lands cannot be levied on by domestic attachment under the act of 1785. The act authorizes the attachment of such effects only as are capable of being removed.
Motion to reverse an order, made by Trezevant, J., at Rich-land, quashing an attachment issued under the act of 1785, P. L. 367 ; which authorises a justice of peace to issue an attachment against the estate of a debtor, where the creditor shall make oath how much is justly due to him, and that he has just grounds to suspect, and verdy believes, that such debtor intends to remove his effects. It appeared that the sheriff, in whose hands the attachment was placed for service, returned that he bad levied the same on a certain piece of land, &o.; and the process was quashed because of this return, as such attachment cannot be lawfully levied on land.

Opinion:
The court
now here, after hearing Egan on the motion, ordered that the return of the sheriff be quashed, as a false and illegal return : the act giving no authority to attach lands by virtue of any attachment under it, but only to pursue and seize such effects as the debtor may have in transitu; such effects as are in their nature capable of being removed, or moveable property on the point of, or in danger of immediate assignment.
Present, Grimke, Waties, Johnson, Trezevant, and Bre. vard, Justices; Bay, J. absent.