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...A plaintiff in an action for the recovery of money, upon or at any time after the commencement of the action, may apply to the court by written motion for the attachment of property, other than personal earnings, of the defendant. The motion shall have attached to it the affidavit of the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney, which shall set forth all of the following: (A) The nature and amount of the plaintiff's claim...

...A defendant against whom a motion for attachment is filed under section 2715.03 of the Revised Code may receive a hearing on the motion in accordance with section 2715.043 of the Revised Code by delivering a written request for a hearing to the court within five business days after receipt of the notice provided pursuant to section 2715.041 of the Revised Code. The request may set forth the defendant's reasons for di...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for an order of attachment pursuant to section 2715.03 of the Revised Code, the plaintiff shall file with the clerk of the court a praecipe instructing the clerk to issue to the defendant against whom the motion was filed a notice of the proceeding. Upon receipt of the praecipe, the clerk shall issue the notice which shall be in substantially the following form: "(Name and Address of...

...(A) If a motion for an order of attachment has been filed pursuant to section 2715.03 of the Revised Code, the court may issue an order of attachment without conducting a hearing if it finds all of the following: (1) The notice, motion, and affidavit have been served on the defendant against whom the motion for attachment was filed, as required by section 2715.041 of the Revised Code; (2) The defendant has not requ...

...(A) Upon the filing of the motion for an order of attachment pursuant to section 2715.03 of the Revised Code, the court shall cause the matter to be set for hearing within twenty days thereafter and the defendant shall be notified in accordance with section 2715.041 of the Revised Code. (B) If a hearing is requested in accordance with section 2715.04 of the Revised Code or if a continuance is granted in accordance w...

...An order of attachment issued by a court shall not be effective until the plaintiff that filed the motion for attachment files with the court a bond to the defendant against whom the motion was filed, executed by the plaintiff's surety, in an amount twice the approximate value of the property to be attached under the order, to the effect that, should judgment be issued against the plaintiff, the plaintiff will return...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for attachment, a court may issue an order of attachment without issuing notice to the defendant against whom the motion was filed and without conducting a hearing if the court finds that there is probable cause to support the motion and that the plaintiff that filed the motion for attachment will suffer irreparable injury if the order is delayed until the defendant against whom the mo...

...(A) An order of attachment issued by the court shall be addressed and delivered to the levying officer, and shall require him, after the order has taken effect, to attach the lands, tenements, goods, chattels, stocks or interest in stocks, rights, credits, money, and effects of the defendant, in such officer's county, not exempt by law from being applied to the payment of plaintiff's claim, or so much thereof as will...

...Orders of attachment may be issued to levying officers of different counties. Several of them, at the option of the plaintiff, may be issued at the same time or in succession. Only those which have been executed shall be taxed in the costs, unless otherwise directed by the court.

...The return day of the order of attachment shall be no later than twenty days after the order is issued.

...If there are several orders of attachment against the same defendant, they shall be executed in the order in which they were received by the levying officer.

...(A) The levying officer shall execute an order of attachment, after it has taken effect, without delay. He shall go to the place where the defendant's property is, and he or his agent shall make a true inventory and appraisement of all the property which shall be set forth in his or his agent's affidavit and returned with the order. When the property is real property, the officer shall leave a copy of the order wit...

...(A) When the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney, in the affidavit accompanying a motion for attachment filed under section 2715.03 of the Revised Code, states that he has good reason to believe, and does believe, that a person named in the affidavit has property of the defendant other than personal earnings in his possession, and the levying officer attempts to get possession of such property but cannot do so, he shal...

...The levying officer shall deliver the property attached under section 2715.09 of the Revised Code to the person in whose possession it was found, upon the person's executing a bond to the plaintiff, with sufficient surety, to the effect that the parties to it are bound in the same amount as the bond filed by the plaintiff under section 2715.044 of the Revised Code, or if the plaintiff has not filed such a bond, in do...

...The service of process of garnishment under this chapter upon the sheriff, coroner, clerk, constable, master commissioner, marshal of a municipal corporation, or other officer having in his possession any money, claim, or other property of the defendant, other than personal earnings, or in which the defendant has an interest, shall bind it from the time of service and be a legal excuse to such officers, to the exten...

...The answer of the garnishee required by section 2715.091 of the Revised Code shall be made before the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the garnishee resides, or, if he resides out of the state, before the clerk of the county where he was served, or where the action is pending. A special examination of the garnishee shall be had, and actions against him for failing to appear, or to answer sati...

...The clerk of the court of common pleas before whom the answer mentioned in section 2715.13 of the Revised Code is made shall transmit it to the clerk of the court in which the suit is pending, in the manner depositions are required to be directed and transmitted. For his services he shall receive such fees as are allowed by law for taking depositions and to clerks for furnishing certificates with their seals of offic...

...If in his answer under section 2715.13 of the Revised Code the garnishee admits an indebtedness to the defendant, and the court orders the payment of it in whole or part to the plaintiff, and the garnishee fails to pay according to such order, execution may issue thereon as upon judgments for the payment of money.

...Different attachments of the same property may be made by the same officer; but one inventory and appraisement are sufficient, and it is not necessary to return them with more than one order of attachment.

...When property is under attachment, attachments thereon under subsequent orders of attachment must be as follows: (A) If it is real property, it shall be attached in the manner prescribed for executing attachment. (B) If it is personal property, it shall be attached as in the hands of the officer, and be subject to any previous attachment. (C) If a person is made a garnishee more than once with respect to the same ...

...The levying officer shall return upon every order of attachment what he has done under it. The return shall show the property attached and the time it was attached. When garnishees are served under this chapter, their names, and the time each was served, shall be stated. The officer shall return with the order all bonds given under it.

...An order of attachment shall bind the property attached from the time of service. A garnishee under this chapter shall be liable to the plaintiff in attachment for all property of the defendant in his hands, and money and credits due from him to the defendant, other than personal earnings, from the time he is served with the written notice required in section 2715.091 of the Revised Code. When property is attached in...

...On application of the plaintiff, and for good cause shown, the court, may appoint a receiver, who shall take an oath and give a bond as is provided in other cases.

...(A) The receiver appointed under section 2715.20 of the Revised Code shall take possession of all notes, due bills, books of account, accounts, and other evidences of debt, that have been taken by the levying officer as the property of the defendant in attachment, and proceed to settle and collect them. For that purpose, the receiver may commence and maintain actions in the receiver's own name, as receiver, but no ri...

...The receiver appointed under section 2715.20 of the Revised Code forthwith shall give written or printed notice of his appointment to the persons indebted to the defendant in attachment, which notice must be served on the debtor by a copy personally, or by a copy left at his residence. From the date of such service, the debtors shall be liable to the plaintiff in attachment for the amount of money and credits of the ...