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distress does not touch the body as an 
attachment does. 
In the common acceptation, an attach- 
ment is the apprehension of a man’s body, 
to bring hint to answer the action of the 
plaintiff. 
Attachment out of the chancery is ob- 
tained upon an affidavit made that the 
defendant was served with a subpoena, and 
made no appearance ; or it issueth upon not 
performing some order or decree. Upon 
the return of this attachment by the sheriff, 
quod non est inventus in balliva sua, another 
attachment, with a proclamation, issues ; 
and if he appears not thereupon, a commis- 
sion of rebellion. 
Attachment out of the forest, is one of 
the three courts held in the forest. The 
lowest court is called the court of attach- 
ment, or wood-mote court ; the mean, 
swan-mote ; and the highest, the justice in 
eyre’s seat. 
This attachment is by three means, by 
goods and chatties, by body, pledges, and 
mainprize, or the body only. This court is 
held every forty days throughout the year, 
whence it is called forty-days court. 
Attachment of privilege, is by virtue of 
a man’s privilege to call another to that 
court whereto he himself belongs, and in 
respect whereof he is privileged to answer 
some action. 
Attachment, foreign, is an attachment 
of money or goods, found within a liberty 
or city, to satisfy some creditor within such 
liberty or city. 
By the custom of London and several 
other places, a man can attach money or 
goods in the hands of a stranger to satisfy 
himself. 
ATTAINDER, in law, is when a man 
has committed felony or treason, and sen- 
tence is passed upon him for the same. The 
children of a person attainted of treason, 
are, thereby, rendered incapable of being 
heirs to him, or to any other ancestor ; and 
if he were noble before, his posterity are 
degraded and made base : nor can this cor- 
ruption of blood be salved but by an act of 
parliament, unless the sentence be reversed 
by a writ of error. 
Attainder, bill of, a bill brought into 
parliament for attainting, condemning, and 
executing a person for high-treason. 
ATTAINT, in law, a writ which lies 
against a jury that have given a false ver- 
dict in any court of record, in a real or 
personal action, where the debt or damages 
amount to above forty shillings. 
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If the verdict be foundfalse the judgment, 
by common law was, that the jurors mea- 
dows should be ploughed up, their houses 
broken down, their woods grubbed up, all 
their lands and tenements forfeited, &e. 
but by statute the severity of the common 
law is mitigated, where a petty jury is 
attainted, and there is a pecuniary penalty 
appointed. 
But if the verdict be affirmed, such plain- 
tiff shall be imprisoned and fined. 
ATTELABUS, in natural history, a genus 
of insects of the order Coleoptera. Head 
attenuated behind ; antennae thickening to- 
wards the lip. 
Of the genus Attelabus, one of the prin- 
cipal species is the Attelabus coryli of Lin- 
naeus, which is a smallish insect, found 
chiefly on hazel trees, and is black with red 
wing-sheaths ; and a variety sometimes 
occurs in which the thorax is red also ; it 
usually measures about a quarter of an inch 
in length. A much smaller species is the 
Attelabus betulae, which is found on the 
birch ; it is entirely of a black colour, and 
is remarkable for gnawing the leaves of that 
tree during the early part of spring, in such 
a manner that they appear notched on the 
edges. The thighs of the hind-legs in this 
insect are of a remarkable thickened form. 
The larvae of the attelabi do not seem to 
have been distinctly described, but they 
probably bear a resemblance to those of 
the genus Curculio. Linnaeus refers to the 
genus attelabus some insects which by later 
entomologists have been otherwise arranged : 
among these is the elegant species called At- 
telabus apiarius, so named from the mischiet 
which its larva occasionally commits among 
bee-hives, destroying the young of those 
insects. It is about three quarters of an 
inch in length, and of a beautiful violet- 
black, with red wing-shells, marked by three 
black transverse bands. The whole insect 
is also covered with fine short black hair. 
It is common in some parts of France, Ger- 
many, &c. Its larva above mentioned is 
of a bright red colour. There are 13 spe- 
cies. 
ATTENDANT, in law, one that owes 
duty or service to another, or in some man- 
ner depends upon him, as a widow endow- 
ed of lands by a guardian, shall be attendant 
upon him. . 
ATTESTATION, in military affairs, is a 
certificate made by some justice of the 
peace, within four days after the enlistment 
of a recruit. This certificate is to bear tes- 
timony that the said recruit has been brought 
