Attachment of Goods (Ireland) Act, 1850

Affidavit, where plaintiff desires to proceed by attachment of goods, &c.

3. In all cases of debt or liquidated damages where the sum sought to be recovered and sworn to in such action shall exceed the sum of twenty pounds, and in which the plaintiff shall be desirous of proceeding in any such court of record by attachment of goods, in addition to the statements now by law required to be made in the affidavit to be sworn and filed by or on behalf of the plaintiff or plaintiffs before the issuing of any writ of attachment of goods to compel appearance, it shall be necessary to show by such affidavit that there is probable cause for believing that the defendant is about to abscond or to quit Ireland, or to remove, conceal, assign, or otherwise dispose of his goods or chattels, with intent to defraud his creditors.