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Procedure on execution on real estate - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 786

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     § 786.  Procedure on execution on real estate.
        (a)  Filing.--The prothonotary of any court of common pleas
     shall, on demand of the fiduciary or of any party in interest,
     file and docket a certified transcript or extract from the
     record showing that an orphans' court division has adjudged an
     amount to be due by any person, and such transcripts or extract
     shall constitute a judgment of the court against such person
     from the time of its filing with the same effect as if it had
     been obtained in an action in the division of the court having
     jurisdiction over actions at law. If the amount adjudged to be
     due shall be increased or decreased on appeal, the prothonotary
     shall, if the decree of the appellate court is certified to him,
     change his records accordingly, and if the appellate court has
     increased the amount, the excess shall constitute a judgment
     from the time when the records are so changed.
        (b)  Satisfaction and discharge.--If the orphans' court
     division shall order such person to be relieved from any such
     judgment, the prothonotary shall, on demand of any party in
     interest, enter on his records a certified copy of such order,
     which shall operate as a satisfaction of the judgment.
        (c)  Executions.--Execution may be issued on the judgment out
     of the court against the real estate of such respondent by any
     interested party for the recovery of so much as may be due to
     him, in the same manner as upon any other judgment rendered by
     the court.

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