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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 521.490

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

When any attachment shall be dissolved, all proceedings touching the property and effects attached, and the garnishee summoned, shall be vacated, and the suit shall proceed as if it had been commenced by summons only.