[f. ATTACH v.]
1. The action of arresting; arrest, seizure.
1543. Grafton, Contn. Harding, 437. After whose attachynge and imprysonmente, the realme was set in more quyetnes.
1576. A. Hall, Acc. Quarrel (1815), 21. A warrant … for the attaching of Smalley.
1863. Cox, Inst. Eng. Govt., III. ii. 593, note. 3 Edw. I. c. 35 prohibits bailiffs of liberties from attaching persons not subject to their jurisdictions.
2. The action of joining to. (Mostly gerundial).
1747. in Col. Rec. Penn., V. 149. The attaching these Indians and their friends to the English Cause.
