He called for an America wholly free of foreign attachments, as the United States must concentrate only on American interests.

Foreign attachment procedures have existed from time to time in Scotland, where it was known as arrestment, in France, where it was known as saisie arret, in the U.S and elsewhere.

Man's part is simply to prepare his heart continually by ridding his will of foreign attachments, his reason of anxieties, and his memory of idle or absorbing business - even though that business appear to be so very necessary.

Similarly, AT&T sought to entirely monopolize the provision of goods that worked in conjunction with its network, famously opposing 'foreign attachments' and claiming for itself the sole right to charge (supra-competitive rents) for applications like telephones that connected to the network.

Its principal uses were to compel the appearance of corporations aggregate in revenue suits, and to enforce judgments against shareholders in companies regulated by the Companies Clauses Act 1845, or similar private acts, and against garnishees in proceedings in foreign attachment in the Lord Mayor's Court.

Initially, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found in AT&T's favor; it found that the device was a "foreign attachment" subject to AT&T control and that unrestricted use of the device could, in the commission's opinion, result in a general deterioration of the quality of telephone service.