738. The defendant may, within five days of service of the writ, demand that the seizure be quashed because of the insufficiency or the falsity of the allegations of the affidavit on the strength of which the writ was issued.
The demand is presented to a judge who quashes the seizure if the allegations contained in the affidavit are insufficient. In the opposite case, the judge refers the motion to the court and, if expedient, revises the extent of the seizure and makes any other useful order for safeguarding the rights of the parties.
The burden is on the seizing party to prove the allegations of his affidavit.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 738; 1982, c. 32, s. 50; 1996, c. 5, s. 44.