An officer who levies an attachment or execution upon personal property acquires a special lien, dependent on possession, upon such property, which authorizes him to hold it until the process is discharged or satisfied, or a judicial sale of the property is had.

Source: CivC 1877, § 1811; CL 1887, § 4446; RCivC 1903, § 2158; RC 1919, § 1699; SDC 1939, § 39.1504.