§ 486.080.Order Personally Served On Defendant

Service matters more here than in most civil filings, because service is what makes the order operative against the defendant. § 486.080 requires personal service, not mail or another substitute method, and requires the order to go out together with the documents § 484.040 already requires the plaintiff to serve in seeking a right to attach order — so the defendant receives the full picture of the attachment proceeding in one package rather than piecemeal.

The timing of that service carries consequences elsewhere in the chapter. § 486.110 ties the creation of an attachment lien to the moment the order is personally served, and § 486.070 makes the defendant, once served, the only person bound by the order's terms.