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Attachment (psychology) – a product of the activity of a number of behavioral systems that have proximity to a person, e.g. a mother, as a predictable outcome.
A means of collecting a legal judgment by levying on property in the possession of a third party.
In some states in the United States including California, prejudgment attachment is a procedure which allows a creditor to levy upon and sometimes seize assets of a defendant prior to judgment as part of the litigation process; see prejudgment attachment.
A part of most vacuum cleaners which allows them to reach otherwise inaccessible places.
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Attachment being merely a process to bring the defendant before the court, is not necessary in cases of contempt in the presence of the court itself.
Attachments are granted on a rule in the first instance to show cause, which must be personally served before it can be made absolute, except for non-payment of costs on a master's allocatur, and against a sheriff for not obeying a rule to return a writ or to bring in the body.
In the United States attachment of debts is a statutory remedy accorded in most of the states in certain circumstances for the security of creditors, by the seizure by the sheriff of the debtor's goods or the imposition of a lien upon his land, before judgment, and sometimes at the very commencement of the action.
Attachment theory is a theory, or group of theories, about the psychological tendency to seek closeness to another person, to feel secure when that person is present, and to feel anxious when that person is absent.
Attachment theory has become the dominant theory used today in the study of infant and toddler behavior and in the fields of infant mental health, treatment of children, and related fields.
Attachment disorder refers to the failure to form normal attachments with caregivers during childhood.