An Act Providing for the Attachment of the Property of the Defendant in Criminal Action, by Amending for This Purpose the Rules of Court

REPUBLIC ACT No. 240

An Act Providing for the Attachment of the Property of the Defendant in Criminal Action, by Amending for This Purpose the Rules of Court

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. The Rules of Court is hereby amended by adding a new Rule after Rule One hundred twenty-two, to be known as Rule One hundred twenty-two-A which shall read as follows:

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 12, 1948.

"Rule 122-A
"Attachment

"Sec. 1. Attachment.— At the commencement of a criminal action or at any time thereafter, when the civil action for the recovery of civil liability arising from the offense charged is not expressly waived or the right to institute such civil action separately is not reserved, the offended party may have the property of the defendant attached as security for the satisfaction of any judgment that may be recovered from the defendant, in the following cases:

"Sec. 2. Sections two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty of Rule Fifty-nine of the Rules of Court governing attachment provided for in the preceding section in so far as they may be applicable."