Maine Revised Statutes

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 4451 (2026)

Real estate and interests subject to attachment

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All real estate liable to be taken on execution as provided in chapter 403; the right to cut and carry away grass and timber from land sold by this State or Massachusetts, the soil of which is not sold and all other rights and interests in real estate may be attached on mesne process and held to satisfy the judgment recovered by the plaintiff, but the officers need not enter on or view the estate to make such attachment.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1973–2016 · leading case: Gunter v. Merchants Warren Nat'l Bank, 360 F. Supp. 1085 (D. Me. 1973).

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Gunter v. Merchants Warren Nat'l Bank, 360 F. Supp. 1085 (D. Me. 1973). · cites it 2× “(14 M.R.S.A. § 4451 et seq.) and Rule 4A of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, insofar as they permit the prejudgment attachment of real estate without prior notice and hearing, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Est. of Steven Summers v. Gregory Nisbet, 2016 ME 88 (Me. 2016). “§ 4151 (as to personal property); see 14 M.R.S. § 4451 (as to real property). Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 4A(c) dictates the standard and procedure by which an attachment may ordinarily be obtained: 4 No property may be attached unless such attachment for a specified amount is…”

Bay State Harness Horse R. & B. Ass'n v. PPG Indus., Inc., 365 F. Supp. 1299 (D. Mass. 1973). “The Maine procedures found unconstitutional are set forth at Chapter 507 of Title 14 of the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated (14 M.R.S.A. § 4451 et seq.) and Rule 4A of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure.”

Martel v. Bearce, 311 A.2d 540 (Me. 1973). “14 M.R.S.A. § 4451 describes attachable real estate: “All real estate liable to be taken on execution as provided in chapter 403; the right to cut and carry away grass and timber from land sold by this State or Massachusetts, the soil of which is not sold and all other rights…”

In Re the Oronoka, 393 F. Supp. 1311 (D. Me. 1975). “, 14 M.R.S.A. § 4451 et seq., and Rule 4A of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, insofar as they permitted the prejudgment attachment of real estate without prior notice and hearing, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Kacher v. Pittsburgh Nat'l Bank, 545 F.2d 842 (3rd Cir. 1976). “1973) (discussing 14 M.R.S.A. § 4451 et seq.), and in the law of New Hampshire, Hampton Nat’l Bank v.”

Cranston v. Com. Chem. Corp., 324 A.2d 301 (Me. 1974). “6 Independently of Gunter, we find no reason to doubt the constitutional validity of our Rule 4A and 14 M.R.S.A. § 4451 in force at the time the attachment here before us was made.”

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