Michigan Compiled Laws 236-1961-60 Chapter 60 Enforcement Of Judgments (600.6001...600.6098)

• Section 600.6001 Persons To Whom Execution Issued.
  Whenever a judgment is rendered in any court, execution to collect the same may be issued to the sheriff, bailiff, or other proper officer...
• Section 600.6002 Execution; Indorsement; Date; Return; Death Or Incapacity Of Officer Serving Execution; Certificate; Jurisdiction As To Joint Or Joint And Several Obligors.
  (1) Upon receipt of any execution the sheriff or other officer receiving the execution shall indorse thereon the year, month, day, and hour of...
• Section 600.6003 Execution On Transcript Of Judgment By District, Municipal, Or Common Pleas Court.
  Whenever a transcript of a judgment rendered by a district, municipal, or common pleas court is filed and docketed by the clerk of the...
• Section 600.6004 Execution Against Realty; Contents.
  Executions against realty shall command the officer to whom they are directed to make execution against the realty of the judgment debtor only after...
• Section 600.6005 Successive Or Alias Executions; Several Executions.
  Successive or alias executions may be issued one after another upon return of any execution unsatisfied in whole or in part, for the amount...
• Section 600.6006 Execution; New.
  If an execution is returned satisfied in whole or in part, by the sale of any property which afterwards appears not to belong to...
• Section 600.6007 Execution; Precedence.
  If there are 1 or more executions or attachments issued against the same judgment debtor or his property, the execution or attachment first delivered...
• Section 600.6008 Execution; Set-off; Balance On Appeal.
  (1) Executions between the same parties may be set off one against another, if required by either party as follows: (a) When 1 of...
• Section 600.6009 Execution; Officer's Security; Recovery Of Expense.
  Whenever there is any reasonable doubt as to the ownership by a judgment debtor of any personal property, or as to their liability to...
• Section 600.6010 Execution; Return; Misconduct Of Officer; Civil Liability.
  The officer who makes any sale on execution shall, in his return on the execution, specify the articles sold, and the sum for which...
• Section 600.6011 Effect Of Order To Stay Proceedings On Execution.
  When an execution has been issued, an order to stay proceedings thereon shall not prevent a levy on property by virtue of the execution,...
• Section 600.6012 Execution; Property Bound From Time Of Levy.
  Whenever an execution issues against the property of any person, his goods and chattels, lands and tenements, levied upon by such execution, shall be...
• Section 600.6013 Interest On Money Judgment.
  (1) Interest is allowed on a money judgment recovered in a civil action, as provided in this section. However, for complaints filed on or...
• Section 600.6017 Execution; Personalty.
  Except as otherwise provided by law, execution may be made against all personal property of the judgment debtor that is liable to execution at...
• Section 600.6018 Execution; Realty.
  All the real estate of any judgment debtor, including, but not limited to, interests acquired by parties to contracts for the sale of land,...
• Section 600.6021 Judgments; Nonissuance Of Execution.
  No execution may issue upon a judgment against: (1) Any township, village, city, or against the trustees or common council, or officers thereof where...
• Section 600.6022 Persons Whose Property Is Exempt.
  Executions shall not issue: (1) In the case of a debt due from a deceased person, against the body or property of his or...
• Section 600.6023 Property Exempt From Levy And Sale Under Execution; Lien Excluded From Exemption; Homestead Exemption; Rents And Profits.
  (1) The following property of a judgment debtor and the judgment debtor's dependents is exempt from levy and sale under an execution: (a) All...
• Section 600.6023a Property Held Jointly By Husband And Wife; Exemption Under Judgment Entered Against 1 Spouse.
  Property described in section 1 of 1927 PA 212, MCL 557.151, or real property, held jointly by a husband and wife as a tenancy...
• Section 600.6024 Exemptions From Sale On Execution; Taxation; Exception; Purchase Money Mortgage Sale; Effect Of Sale Of Property.
  (1) Nothing in this chapter shall be considered as exempting real estate from taxation or sale for taxes. (2) No specific piece of property...
• Section 600.6025 Execution; Exemptions; Inventory; Appraisal; Expenses.
  (1) When a levy is made upon property of any class or species, which is exempt by law from execution to a specified number,...
• Section 600.6026 Selection From Inventory; Selection Of Homestead; Survey; Sale Of Property Levied Upon; Deed.
  (1) Upon inventory and appraisal, the defendant in execution, or his authorized agent, may select from the inventory the number of items or animals,...
• Section 600.6027 Homestead Valued At More Than $3,500; Procedure.
  If the homestead of any debtor is appraised at a value of more than $3,500.00, and cannot be divided, the debtor shall not for...
• Section 600.6031 Execution Sale; Notice.
  No sale of any goods or chattels may be made by virtue of any execution, unless at least 10 days' previous notice of such...
• Section 600.6032 Execution Sale; Personalty.
  No personal property may be exposed for sale on execution, unless the same is present and within the view of those attending such sale;...
• Section 600.6033 Execution; Property Partially Exempt; Bond.
  Whenever a levy is made upon any article, belonging to a class or species which is exempt from execution to a specified amount or...
• Section 600.6034 Execution; Property Subject To Chattel Mortgage.
  The purchaser at a sale of goods or chattels pledged by way of mortgage or otherwise shall be entitled to pay, before foreclosure, to...
• Section 600.6035 Levy On Perishable Property; Sale; Order Of Court; Notice.
  (1) Whenever the officer by virtue of any execution issued by a court, levies upon any perishable property, he shall proceed to sell it...
• Section 600.6036 Execution; Growing Grain Or Unharvested Crops.
  When a levy is made upon grain while growing, or on any unharvested crops by virtue of any execution, the officer making such levy...
• Section 600.6037 Execution; Corporate Shares; Seizure By Officer; Furnishing Certificates Of Shares Held By Defendant; Writ; Record Of Transfer; Restraint On Transfer; Dividends After Levy.
  (1) No attachment or levy upon shares of stock for which a certificate is outstanding, is valid until such certificate is actually seized by...
• Section 600.6038 Execution; Franchise Of Corporation Authorized To Receive Toll; Notice; Adjournment; Person Deemed Highest Bidder; Rights Of Purchaser; Transfer; Injury To Franchise; Recovery Of Penalties; Powers, Duties, And Liabilities; Redemption.
  (1) The officer having execution against any corporation authorized to receive tolls, shall, 30 days, at least, before the day of sale of the...
• Section 600.6041 Execution; Fees And Charges Of Sale.
  The lawful fees and charges of the sale upon any execution in the manner prescribed in this chapter, shall, in all cases, be added...
• Section 600.6042 Postponement Of Sale; Public Declaration; Notice.
  If, at the time appointed for the sale of any real or personal property on execution, the officer shall deem it expedient and for...
• Section 600.6043 Execution; Where More Than One Levy.
  In case of levies made on more than 1 of the executions provided for in section 6005, sale shall only be made on 1...
• Section 600.6044 Execution; Surplus; Disposition.
  If, after any sale made as herein prescribed there remains in the hands of the officer any surplus money after satisfying the writ or...
• Section 600.6045 Execution; Refusal Of Highest Bidder To Take Property; Effect.
  (1) If the highest bidder for any property at any sale on execution refuses to take and pay for it, he is liable for...
• Section 600.6046 Execution; Officer Not To Purchase Or Be Interested.
  The sheriff or other officer to whom execution is directed, and the deputies of such officers, shall not directly or indirectly, purchase or be...
• Section 600.6047 Payment By Debtor Of Judgment Debtor.
  After issuing execution to collect a judgment, any person indebted to the judgment debtor may pay to the officer having the execution the amount...
• Section 600.6051 Execution Against Real Estate; Effect; Notice; Invalid After 5 Years.
  No levy by execution on real estate is valid: (1) Against bona fide conveyances made subsequent to such levy, until a notice thereof, containing...
• Section 600.6052 Notice Of Time And Place Of Sale.
  Prior to the sale of any real estate taken on execution, notice of the time and place of holding the sale, the notice to...
• Section 600.6053 Execution; Time, Place, Adjournment.
  (1) The sale of real estate by virtue of any execution shall be by public sale, between the hour of 9 o'clock in the...
• Section 600.6054 Execution; Irregular Sale; Taking Down Or Defacement Of Notice; Liability; Irregularities Not To Invalidate.
  (1) Any officer who sells any real estate, without the previous notice herein directed, or otherwise than in the manner herein prescribed, shall be...
• Section 600.6055 Execution; Certificates, Contents; Filing; Disposition; Recording; Use As Evidence.
  (1) Upon the sale of any real estate by virtue of an execution, the officer making the same shall make and subscribe as many...
• Section 600.6056 Separate Exposure Of Lots, Tracts, Or Parcels For Sale; Sale Of Undivided Interest.
  (1) When any real estate offered for sale by virtue of any execution consists of several known lots, tracts, or parcels, such lots, tracts,...
• Section 600.6057 Execution; Leasehold Interest; Rights Of Purchaser; Conveyance; Deposit; Recording; Filing Notice Of Levy; Effect; Payment Of Rent.
  (1) When a leasehold interest is sold on execution, the purchaser is entitled to all the rights and privileges of the defendant in and...
• Section 600.6058 Repealed. 2004, Act 538, Eff. Mar. 30, 2005.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to vendor interest in land contract and disposition of payments.
• Section 600.6059 Execution; Homestead; Sale In Case Surplus Not Paid.
  In case the surplus, or the amount due on the execution or judgment is not paid according to the provisions of section 6027 of...
• Section 600.6060 Execution; Not Made On Equity Of Redemption On Certain Judgment; Endorsement On Execution; Direction To Officer.
  (1) When judgment is recovered for a debt or any part of a debt secured by mortgage of real estate, there can be no...
• Section 600.6061 Execution; Rights Of Purchaser.
  When any sale, by virtue of any execution, or attachment, becomes absolute, the purchaser at such sale acquires all the rights and interests that...
• Section 600.6062 Redemption Of Real Estate; Time; Persons Entitled To Make; Effect On Sale And Certificate; Amount Stated In Recorded Affidavit.
  (1) Not later than 1 year from the date when sale on execution is made, the real estate sold or any distinct lot, tract,...
• Section 600.6063 Acquisition By Creditor Of Interest Vested In Original Purchaser By Sale; Terms.
  (1) In case the persons entitled as hereinbefore provided omit to redeem the premises sold, or any part of them, within the year prescribed,...
• Section 600.6064 Acquisition By Creditor Of Interest Vested In Original Purchaser By Sale; Purchase By Other Creditors; Acquisition By Original Purchaser, Execution Plaintiff, Or Mortgagee.
  (1) Whenever any creditor, or purchaser, acquires the title of the original purchaser pursuant to the foregoing provisions, any other creditor who might have...
• Section 600.6065 Acquisition Of Interest Of Original Purchaser; Evidence Of Right Of Creditor To Purchase.
  To entitle any creditor to acquire the title of the original purchaser, or to become a purchaser from any other creditor, he shall present...
• Section 600.6066 Acquisition Of Interest Of Original Purchaser; Transfer Of Title; Automation Fund.
  (1) The sums required to be paid under this act, to acquire the title of the original purchaser or to become a purchaser from...
• Section 600.6067 Right To Deed; Assignments.
  When the premises mentioned in any officer's certificate of sale of real estate under execution is not redeemed, the legal holder of the certificate...
• Section 600.6068 Vesting Of Title; Action For Injury To Realty By Grantee In Deed; Action For Waste, Injury, Or Removal Of Realty Or Fixtures For Benefit Of Person Acquiring Rights.
  (1) The right and title of the person against whom execution was issued, to any real estate sold thereon, shall not be divested by...
• Section 600.6069 Conveyance Of Premises; Time; Effect; Executor, Administrator, Or Person Equitably Entitled; Real Estate Held In Trust.
  (1) After the expiration of 15 months from the time of the sale of any real estate, if any part of the premises sold...
• Section 600.6070 Redemption; Discharge Of Levy, Judgment, Or Mortgage; Fee.
  In all cases of redemption of lands sold on execution, or in all cases of the sale of lands on mortgage foreclosure, whether by...
• Section 600.6071 Contribution Among Several Judgment Debtors; Order Of Contribution; Enforcement; Lien Of Original Judgment; Affidavit; Recording.
  (1) When lands and tenements, in the hands of several persons, are liable to satisfy any judgment, and the whole of such judgment, or...
• Section 600.6072 Eviction Of Purchaser; Recovery Of Purchase Price; Further Execution For Benefit Of Purchaser; Validity Of Original Judgment.
  (1) If the purchaser of any real estate, sold by virtue of an execution, his heirs or assigns, shall be evicted from the possession...
• Section 600.6075 Civil Arrest; Grounds.
  Except as otherwise provided by law, no person is liable to arrest or imprisonment on any civil process unless: (1) In a proceeding for...
• Section 600.6076 Civil Arrest; Prerequisite.
  Except in a contempt proceeding, no warrant for civil arrest shall issue unless: (1) Execution has been made and returned against all the property...
• Section 600.6077 Warrant To Arrest Judgment Debtor.
  (1) Upon satisfactory proof of any of the grounds for civil arrest named in subsections (2) and (3) or section 6075, any judge of...
• Section 600.6078 Hearing; Detention Of Judgment Debtor.
  (1) Upon delivery of the judgment debtor to the judge, the judge shall hold a hearing and, after hearing the proofs, the allegations of...
• Section 600.6079 Civil Arrest; Discharge.
  The judgment debtor may avoid commitment or be discharged from commitment by: (1) Paying the amount due on the judgment with interest and costs;...
• Section 600.6080 Civil Arrest; Bail.
  (1) Any person arrested on civil process is entitled to bail during the time within which he may appeal the proceeding on which the...
• Section 600.6081 Civil Arrest; Bail; Bond; Forfeiture; Release.
  (1) If, within the time prescribed in subsection (1) of section 6080, the judgment debtor is not discharged, and fails to surrender himself for...
• Section 600.6082 Imprisonment; Segregation From Criminals; Payment Of Board.
  (1) Those persons committed on civil process shall be segregated from those committed on criminal process. (2) The board of any person committed under...
• Section 600.6083 Imprisonment; Sheriff's Liability For Escape.
  (1) All prisoners committed on civil process shall be actually confined in jail until discharged according to law; and if any sheriff or keeper...
• Section 600.6084 Imprisonment; Discharge; Effect.
  Discharge of the judgment debtor from imprisonment only bars further civil arrest of the judgment debtor on the same judgment, and does not preclude...
• Section 600.6085 Removal Or Concealment Of Property To Avoid Execution; Misdemeanor.
  Any person who removes any of his property out of any county, with intent to prevent the same from being levied upon by an...
• Section 600.6086 Transfer Of Property By Judgment Debtor After Commitment; Validity.
  Transfers by the judgment debtor of any property, except property exempt from execution, made after the judgment debtor's commitment, or while he is free...
• Section 600.6091 Sale Of Real Estate Pursuant To Judgment; Notice; Procedure; Fees.
  Any person duly authorized by an order of the court to sell real estate in pursuance of any judgment, except as otherwise provided by...
• Section 600.6092 Judgment Against Absent, Concealed, Or Nonresident Defendant; Sequestration Of Realty Or Personalty; Delivery Of Possession Of Property; Satisfaction Out Of Estate And Effects Sequestered.
  (1) In the case of a judgment against an absent, concealed, or nonresident defendant, process may issue to compel the performance of such judgment...
• Section 600.6093 Recovery Of Judgment Against Township, Village, City, Or County.
  (1) Whenever judgment is recovered against any township, village, or city, or against the trustees or common council, or officers thereof, in any action...
• Section 600.6094 Recovery Of Judgment For Damages Against School District Or Intermediate School District.
  (1) Subject to subsection (5), if a final judgment for damages is entered against a school district or an intermediate school district and is...
• Section 600.6095 Collection Of Judgment; Against State Institution.
  When any judgment or decree is obtained against any corporate body, or unincorporated board, now or hereafter having charge or control of any state...
• Section 600.6096. Added Judgment Or Claim Against Department; Payment From Unencumbered Appropriation; Identifying Information; Application Of Amount To Certain Liabilities; Order Of Priority; Disclosure; Definitions.
  600.6096.added Judgment or claim against department; payment from unencumbered appropriation; identifying information; application of amount to certain liabilities; order of priority; disclosure; definitions.Sec. 6096. (1)...
• Section 600.6097 Judgment Against Municipality; Issuance Of Certificates Of Indebtedness Or Bonds To Pay Judgment; Amount; Interest; Sale; Duration; Bonds Not Subject To Mcl 117.5; “municipality” Defined.
  (1) If a judgment of a court or administrative agency is rendered against any municipality, the legislative body of that municipality, unless otherwise provided,...
• Section 600.6098 Review Of Verdict In Action Alleging Medical Malpractice Or Personal Injury Action; Duties Of Judge; Reinstatement Of Original Verdict; Affirming Orders And Judgments Granting Additur Or Remittitur.
  (1) A judge presiding over an action alleging medical malpractice shall review each verdict to determine if the limitation on noneconomic damages provided for...

Last modified: October 10, 2016