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aud tKepriii'.ipa! town, called alfo ylfacama, is no kfs tlian 

 1 20 leagues from Plata. Its jurifdiftion is of a confiderable 

 extent, and a great part of it very fruitful ; but intermixed 

 with fome deferts, particularly towards the fouth, where it 

 divides the kingdoms of Peru and Chili. On the coaft in 

 this province there is annually a very large fifliery of Tolo, 

 a fiui common in the South fea, with wl;ich a ver)- great 

 trade is carried on with the inland provinces, this beii:g the 

 chief food in Lent and other days of abftinence. There is 

 a great defert of the fame nam.e, and a cliain of mountains, 

 which feparate Peru, on the north, from the province of 



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Quito. The cold in tlicfe mountains is fometimes fo tx-. 

 trcmcly fcvere, that thofe who paf-i it are occafionally fro^ca 

 to death. S. lat. 22". W. long. 80'' 20'. 



ATTACANA, in Andcnt Geography, a town of Afia, 

 in greater Armenia. Ptolemy. 



ATTACCO, in Mufic, is a kind of (hort fubjeft or poi.-it, 

 not reftiicled to all the laws of regular fugue. Somttimci 

 it is a feftion of tiie principal thcir.e itfelf, treated rather a» 

 an imitation than a fubjeft of regular fugue, and may be 

 aiiiwcred m any interval, at pleafure. 



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ATTACHIAMENTA Bonorum, in Law, a diftrefs 

 taken upon goods or chattels, where a man is fued for per- 

 fonal eftate or debt, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as 

 fccurity to anfwer an adlion. 



Attachiamenta de Spinis et Bosco, is a pri- 

 vilege granted to the officers of a fortft to take to their own 

 ufe thorns, brufh, and wind-falls, within their own pre- 

 ciniSs. 



ATTACHING, or Attachment, denotes the ap- 

 prehending a perfon or thing, either by a precept or writ. 

 The word is formed of the French attacher, to fnjlen, or tie ; 

 and that from the corrupt Latin attochtare, of attexere, to 

 <weave to ; or rather, as others think, from the Celtic tact, 

 a niiil ; and tacba, to nail ; or the Saxon titcan, to ttiie. 



Lambard make?, this difference between an arrcll and an 

 attachment ; that an arreil proceeds out of an inferior court 

 by precept only, and an attachment out of a higher court, 

 either by precept or writ ; and that a precept to arrcll hath 

 ihefe foi'mal words, duct fddas, &c. and a writ of attach- 

 ment thefe, " pracipimus tiii quod attachia tahm, L> halcas 

 eutn csram nobis." 



By this it appears, that he who arreils cames the party 

 arrel\ed to another higher perfon, to be difpofcd of forth- 



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with : whereas he that attaches keeps the party attached, 

 and prefents him in court at the day affigned in the attach- 

 ment. 



There is this farther difference, that an arrcll lies only 

 upon the body of a man ; and an attachment fometimes on 

 his goods too ; for a man may be attached by an hundred 

 (heep. 



Moreover, attachment is a procefs from a court of record, 

 awarded by the jullices at their difcretion, on a bare fuff- 

 geftion, or on their own kn.owlcdge ; and is properly grantable 

 in cafes of contempts, againll which all courts ot record, 

 but more efpccinllv thoic of Wellminller-hall. and above 

 all the court of B. R. may proceed in a finnmaiy manner. 



The contempts that are thus punifhed, are cither dired, 

 which openly infr.lt or rifill the powers of the courts, or 

 the perfons of the judges who prefide there ; or fife arc ron- 

 fiqueiitial, which, without fueh grofs infolencc or dircA op- 

 pofitioii, plainly tend to create au univerfal difrcgard of their 

 authoiity. The principal inllances of cither fort that have 

 been ufually punill.aWe by attachnunts, are of ilie follow- 

 ing kinds; I. Thofe committed by inferior judges v.nd 

 magiilrates by aftipg unjuftly, oppreffivcly, or irregularly, 

 ia admiiiiftcrirg thofe portions cJ jullice which arc cr- 

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