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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 521.750

  • 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.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

When any sheriff, marshal, or other duly authorized officer shall levy an execution or attachment on any personal property, and any person other than the defendant in such execution or attachment shall claim such property or any interest therein, such officer may demand of the plaintiff or his agent in such execution or attachment a sufficient indemnification bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved of by such officer, and may refuse to execute such execution or attachment until such indemnification bond be given.