Case Name: Harrison v. Halley
Court: General Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1738-04
Citations: 1 Jefferson 58
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harrison v. Halley.
Judges: 
Reporter: Jefferson
Volume: 1
Pages: 34–34

Head Matter:
Harrison v. Halley.
April, 1738.
Attachments — Against Lands.
Reported by Edward Barradall, Esq.
See generally, monographic note on "Attachments" appended to Lancaster v. Wilson, 27 Gratt. 624.

Opinion:
A judgfnent having passed against the defendant and plaintiff as sheriff, the plaintiff had an attachment upon the act of Assembly against the defendant's estate; and it was against his lands as well as goods: the coroner returned that the defendant had no goods, and that he had attached a parcel of land, upon which the plaintiff had judgment, and the laud ordered to be sold as goods taken upon a fieri facias.
N. B. This is the first attachment that has been granted against lands since the statute 5 G. 2, for the more easy recovery of debts in the plantations, upon the equity of which this practice is founded.