jan 1, 1689 - attach

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In legal documents the verb could mean ‘to arrest’ or lay hold of a person or thing. <i>c</i>.1525 <i>caused diuers of the seruantes of your seid oratour to be attached</i>, Sutton in Craven (YRS61/86); 1656 <i>Abraham Woodhead … was attached to answer Elizabeth Greene, spinster, why he with James Greene did eject her from her farm</i>, Holmfirth (G-A). The noun sometimes referred to an article seized by officials to satisfy a debt, a ‘distress’: 1689 <i>he went away, takeing a chair with him under the pretence of an attachment</i>, Holmfirth (QS1).

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