Duties of Sheriffs and Constables: Particularly Under the Practice in California, and the Pacific States and Territories. With Practical Forms for Official Use |
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Duties of Sheriffs and Constables: Particularly Under the Practice in ... W. S. Harlow No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 670 - ... if made by a person having at the time the possession or control of the property, and not accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things transferred, to be fraudulent, and therefore void, against those who are his creditors while he remains in possession...
Page 477 - All persons having in their possession, or under their control, any credits or other personal property belonging to the defendant, or...
Page 774 - The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.
Page 359 - An office becomes vacant on the happening of either of the following events before the expiration of the term : 1. The death of the incumbent; 2. His insanity, found upon a commission of lunacy issued to determine the fact ; 3.
Page 404 - The defendant may be arrested, as hereinafter prescribed, in the following cases: 1. In an action for the recovery of money or damages on a cause of action arising upon contract, express or implied, when the defendant is about to depart from the state with intent to defraud his creditors.
Page 416 - That the plaintiff is the owner of the property claimed (particularly describing it), or is entitled to the possession thereof; 2. That the property is wrongfully detained by the defendant; 3. The alleged cause of the detention thereof, according to his best knowledge, information, and belief; 4. That it has not been taken for a tax, assessment, or fine, pursuant to a statute; or seized, under an execution or an attachment against the property of the plaintiff; or, if so seized, that it is by statute...
Page 504 - ... a person who makes, alters, or repairs any article of personal property, at the request of the owner, or legal possessor of the property...
Page 400 - Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, may be punished as a contempt by the court or officer issuing the subpoena or requiring the witness to be sworn ; and if the witness be a party, his complaint or answer may be stricken out.
Page 633 - ... 1. The judgment debtor, or his successor in interest, in the whole or any part of the property; 2. A creditor having a lien by judgment or mortgage on the property sold, or on some share or part thereof, subsequent to that on which the property was sold. The persons mentioned in the second subdivision of this section are, in this chapter, termed redemptioners.
Page 774 - ... positive that the property is on the person or in the place to be searched, in which case he may insert a direction that it be served at any time of the day or night.