Rule 85.14.Dissolution of Attachment.

Rule 85.14 is where the fairness safeguards built into earlier attachment rules converge. The owner may move to dissolve the attachment at any point before final judgment — there is no fixed deadline cutting off that right. Once the motion is made, the burden sits with the claimant, not the owner, to prove the attachment was properly granted. That allocation makes sense given how attachment starts: an ex parte affidavit and a court finding, without the owner’s participation, so the owner should not have to disprove what was never proven with the owner present.

The rule then lists specific situations in which the court must dissolve the attachment, not merely may. Two track back to earlier rules directly: if the bond required under Rule 85.08 is found inadequate and the claimant does not file a sufficient one within the time the court sets, dissolution follows; the same is true if the affidavit under Rule 85.03 is found insufficient and not fixed in time. A third ground ties to the owner’s own bond under Rule 85.09 — if the owner has entered an appearance in the case and that bond has been filed and approved, the attachment is dissolved, since the owner’s bond has already replaced the attached property as security.

The fourth ground is a catch-all: dissolution for any other reason the writ should not have been issued. That final clause keeps the list from being a rigid checklist and lets the court dissolve an attachment whenever the underlying justification for it falls apart, even for reasons the first three grounds do not specifically describe.

Rule 85.13 supplies the procedural vehicle — a written request for a hearing, held within ten days — through which an owner typically brings this motion before the court. Whatever the court decides on a motion to dissolve becomes part of the record that Rule 85.15 requires to be reflected in the final judgment.