Prejudgment attachment

"Prejudgment attachment is a remedy unknown at common law. Instead, it traces its origin to the Custom of London, under which a creditor might attach money or goods of the defendant either in the plaintiff's own hands or in the custody of a third person, by proceedings in the mayor's court or in the sheriff's court." Connecticut v. Doehr, 501 U.S. 1, 16 (1991).