Florida Statutes Title VI Chapter 56 - Final Process

• 56.011 - Executions; Capias Ad Satisfaciendum Abolished.
  In no case shall a capias ad satisfaciendum be issued upon a judgment, nor shall the body of any defendant be subject to arrest or...
• 56.021 - Executions; Issuance And Return, Alias, Etc.
  When issued, an execution is valid and effective during the life of the judgment or decree on which it is issued. When fully paid, the...
• 56.031 - Executions; Form.
  All executions shall be dated on the day on which they are issued, shall be directed to all and singular the sheriffs of the state...
• 56.041 - Executions; Collection And Return.
  (1) All executions shall be returnable when satisfied, and the officers to whom they are delivered shall collect the amounts thereof as soon as possible and...
• 56.051 - Executions; Collection When Against Principal And Sureties.
  Where there are executions against principals and sureties, or an execution against a principal and surety or sureties, it shall be the duty of the...
• 56.061 - Property Subject To Execution.
  Lands and tenements, goods and chattels, equities of redemption in real and personal property, and stock in corporations, shall be subject to levy and sale...
• 56.071 - Executions On Equities Of Redemption; Discovery Of Value.
  On motion made by the party causing a levy to be made on an equity of redemption, the court from which the execution issued shall...
• 56.09 - Executions Against Corporations; Generally.
  On any judgment against a corporation plaintiff may have an execution levied on the current money as well as on the goods and chattels, lands...
• 56.10 - Executions Against Corporations; Receivership.
  If an execution cannot be satisfied in whole or in part for lack of property of the defendant corporation subject to levy and sale, on...
• 56.12 - Executions; Levy, Forthcoming Bond.
  If a defendant in execution wants to retake possession of any property levied on, he or she may do so by executing a bond with...
• 56.13 - Executions; Forfeiture Of Forthcoming Bond.
  Should the execution remain unpaid, and the parties to the bond fail to produce such property by the day specified, said bond shall be returned...
• 56.14 - Executions Upon Forthcoming Bond; Levy.
  No bonds, as hereinbefore provided, shall be allowed to be given for property seized upon the execution on the judgment upon the forfeited bond.History.—s. 1,...
• 56.15 - Executions; Stay Of Illegal Writs.
  If any execution issues illegally, the defendant in execution may obtain a stay by making and delivering an affidavit to the officer having the execution,...
• 56.16 - Executions; Claims Of Third Parties To Property Levied On.
  If any person other than the defendant in execution claims any property levied on, he or she may obtain possession of the property by filing...
• 56.17 - Executions; Duty Of Officer On Claim Of Third Person Being Filed.
  On receipt of the bond and affidavit the officer shall deliver the property to the claimant and desist from any further proceedings under the execution...
• 56.18 - Executions; Trial Of Claims Of Third Persons.
  As soon as possible after the return a jury, if not waived, shall be impaneled to try the right of property. If the verdict is...
• 56.19 - Judgments Upon Claims Of Third Persons.
  Upon the verdict of the jury, the court shall enter judgment deciding the right of property, and if the verdict is for plaintiff, awarding a...
• 56.20 - Executions On Judgments Against Third Person Claimants.
  If the execution issued on the judgment is not paid, it shall be satisfied in the usual manner unless on demand of the officer holding...
• 56.21 - Execution Sales; Notice.
  Notice of all sales under execution shall be given by advertisement once each week for 4 successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county...
• 56.22 - Execution Sales; Time, Date, And Place Of Sale.
  All sales of property under legal process shall take place at the time, date, and place advertised in the notice of the sheriff’s sale on...
• 56.25 - Execution Sale; Bill Of Sale Or Deed.
  When a sale is made under an execution, the officer making the sale shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed or bill of...
• 56.26 - Executions; Mandamus To Force Levy And Sale.
  When an officer holds an unsatisfied execution and refuses to levy on property liable thereunder and on which it is his or her duty to...
• 56.27 - Executions; Payment Of Money Collected.
  (1) All money received under executions shall be paid, in the order prescribed, to the following: the sheriff, for costs; the levying creditor in the amount...
• 56.275 - Disposition Of Unclaimed Money Collected.
  All unclaimed proceeds from sheriff’s sales or money collected under execution shall be disposed of as provided in s. 116.21.History.—s. 9, ch. 79-396; s. 7,...
• 56.28 - Executions; Failure Of Officer To Pay Over Moneys Collected.
  If any officer collecting money under execution fails or refuses to pay it over within 30 days after it has been received by him or...
• 56.29 - Proceedings Supplementary.
  (1) When any person or entity holds an unsatisfied judgment or judgment lien obtained under chapter 55, the judgment holder or judgment lienholder may file a...

Last modified: September 23, 2016