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Terms Used In Iowa Code 640.5

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
640.5 Bond to discharge.
The court may, in any of the cases mentioned under this head of specific attachments, direct
the terms and conditions of the bond to be executed by the defendant, with security, in order to obtain a discharge of the attachment or to release the attached property.
[R60, §3231; C73, §3004; C97, §3917; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12151; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71,
73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §640.5]