§4158. Replevin of property attached and claimed by non-party to action; sale






When personal property, attached on mesne process, is claimed by a person not a party
to the action, he may replevy it within 10 days after notice given him therefor by
the attaching creditor, and not afterwards. After that, the attaching officer, without
impairing the rights of such person, at the request and on the responsibility of the
plaintiff and with consent of other attaching creditors, if any, may sell it at auction
as on execution, unless the debtor claims it as his and forbids the sale.