W Roy Goode, "Commercial Law", Penguin Books 1995, "biblii" angielskiego prawa handlowego, można znaleźć, że "The seller's right of repossession may be enforced [...] by phsyical seizure (recaption)" s. 764 i "The process by which a security interest is made to fasten to an asset so as to be enforceable against the debtor as respects that asset is [..] termed attachment. Attachment is concerned only with relations between creditor and debtor [...]", s. 673.