Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 28 : Section 2710


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 2710. Right of attachment

      (a) Where debts are due from a defaulting or delinquent
    postmaster, contractor, or other officer, agent or employee of the
    Post Office Department, a warrant of attachment may issue against
    all property and legal and equitable rights belonging to him, and
    his sureties, or either of them, where he - 
        (1) is a nonresident of the district where he was appointed, or
      has departed from that district for the purpose of permanently
      residing outside thereof, or of avoiding the service of civil
      process; and
        (2) has conveyed away, or is about to convey away any of his
      property, or has removed or is about to remove the same from the
      district wherein it is situated, with intent to defraud the
      United States.

      (b) When the property has been removed, the marshal of the
    district into which it has been removed, upon receipt of certified
    copies of the warrant, may seize the property and convey it to a
    convenient place within the jurisdiction of the court which issued
    the warrant. Alias warrants may be issued upon due application. The
    warrant first issued remains valid until the return day thereof.



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