Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

CHAPTER THIRD
ATTACHMENT IN REVENDICATION

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    705.   Whoever has a right to revendicate a movable may obtain a writ for the purpose of having it attached, upon production of an affidavit setting forth his or her right and describing the movable so as to identify it.

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    This right of attachment in revendication may be exercised by the owner, the pledge, the depositary, the usufructuary, the institute in substitutions and the substitute.

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    706.   The writ of attachment in revendication orders the seizure of the effects revendicated, and that they be placed in the hands of a guardian until judgment is rendered upon the revendication.

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    The name of the person upon whose affidavit the writ issues is mentioned upon the back of the writ.

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    707.   The formalities prescribed in articles 649, 676, 678, 687, 688, 689, 690 and 691, are observed in attachments in revendication in so far as they can apply.

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    708.   The defendant upon a demand in revendication may have the effects returned into his or her possession upon giving good and sufficient sureties that he or she will produce them when required, which he or she is in such case bound to do in the same manner as any judicial sequestrator.

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    Nevertheless the Court or Judge may, according to circumstances, grant possession of the effects to the plaintiff, subject to the same conditions.

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    709.   Before the effects are delivered to the party applying for them, the other party may required an inventory to be made, establishing the condition of the effects, their description and their value, in order to settle the amount of the security to be given; and this is done by experts named in the ordinary course of procedure.

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    710.   If neither of the parties applies for the effects seized they remain in custody of the guardian appointed; or else, at the request of either of the parties, the Court or the Judge may, if they are of a nature to produce fruits, order them to be placed in the hands of a sequestrator.