(a) The writ may be substantially in the following form: State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F. (b) No objection will lie to the form of the attachment, if the essential matters in this section be set forth in such attachment. Code 1858, §§ 3474, 3475 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 24); Shan., §§ 5234, 5235; Code 1932, §§ 9424, 9425; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-621. (a) The writ may be substantially in the following form: State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F. (b) No objection will lie to the form of the attachment, if the essential matters in this section be set forth in such attachment. Code 1858, §§ 3474, 3475 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 24); Shan., §§ 5234, 5235; Code 1932, §§ 9424, 9425; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-621. (a) The writ may be substantially in the following form: State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F. (b) No objection will lie to the form of the attachment, if the essential matters in this section be set forth in such attachment. Code 1858, §§ 3474, 3475 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 24); Shan., §§ 5234, 5235; Code 1932, §§ 9424, 9425; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-621. (a) The writ may be substantially in the following form: State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F. State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F. (b) No objection will lie to the form of the attachment, if the essential matters in this section be set forth in such attachment. Code 1858, §§ 3474, 3475 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 24); Shan., §§ 5234, 5235; Code 1932, §§ 9424, 9425; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-621.
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