West Virginia Code § 38-7-5

Attachment for claim not due
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An attachment may be sued out in a court of equity for a debt or claim, legal or equitable,
whether the same be due or not, upon any of the grounds mentioned in section two of this
article, but the affidavit, in case the claim or debt be not due, must show when it will become
due: Provided, however, That an attachment shall not be sued out against a foreign
corporation for a debt not due, upon the ground alone that it is a foreign coreporation, nor
against a nonresident defendant for a debt not due, upon the ground alone that he is a
nonresident, unless the affiant shows by his affidavit that such defendarnt was a resident of
this state when the debt was contracted, and that the plaintiff believed he would remain a
resident of this state at the time he gave the defendant credit.

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