Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 2329 · 101 active provisions
(A) Lands and tenements, including vested legal interests therein, permanent leasehold estates renewable forever, and goods and chattels, not exempt by law, shall be subject to the payment of debts, and liable to be taken on execution and sold as provided in sections 2329.02 to 2329.61 of the Revised Code. (B) As used…
Any judgment or decree rendered by any court of general jurisdiction, including district courts of the United States, within this state shall be a lien upon lands and tenements of each judgment debtor within any county of this state from the time there is filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of…
As used in sections 2329.021 to 2329.027 of the Revised Code, "foreign judgment" means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States, or of any court of another state, that is entitled to full faith and credit in this state.
A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with section 1738 of Title 28 of the United States Code, 62 Stat. 947 (1948), may be filed with the clerk of any court of common pleas. The clerk shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of a court of common pleas. A foreign judgment fi…
(A) When a foreign judgment is filed pursuant to section 2329.022 of the Revised Code, the judgment creditor or his attorney shall make and file with the clerk of the court in which the foreign judgment is filed an affidavit setting forth the name and last known address of the judgment debtor and of the judgment credit…
(A) If the judgment debtor shows the court of common pleas that an appeal is pending or will be taken from a foreign judgment that is filed pursuant to section 2329.022 of the Revised Code, or that a stay of execution of the foreign judgment has been granted and if proof is given to the court that the judgment debtor h…
Any person who files a foreign judgment pursuant to section 2329.022 of the Revised Code shall pay a filing fee of fifteen dollars. Fees for docketing, transcription, or other enforcement proceedings shall be as provided in section 2303.20 of the Revised Code.
Sections 2329.021 to 2329.027 of the Revised Code do not affect the right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce a foreign judgment rather than to enforce the judgment pursuant to those sections.
Sections 2329.021 to 2329.027 of the Revised Code shall be construed to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact a uniform enforcement of foreign judgments act.
Lands and tenements of a judgment debtor shall be bound with a lien for the satisfaction of any judgment of any court of general jurisdiction, including district courts of the United States, within this state, without the filing of the certificate provided for in section 2329.02 of the Revised Code, from the time when…
Judgments of probate courts, municipal courts, county courts, and other courts inferior to the court of common pleas may be made liens upon lands and tenements of a judgment debtor within any county of this state only in the manner provided in section 2329.02 of the Revised Code. The certificate of such judgment shall…
A judgment of the supreme court for money shall bind the lands and tenements of the judgment debtor in any county from the time there is filed, docketed, and indexed, in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of such county, a certificate of such judgment, issued by the clerk of the supreme court or by th…
When a certificate is filed as provided in section 2329.02 of the Revised Code, the lien of a judgment of the court of common pleas in an action which is appealed by the judgment debtor to the court of appeals and thence removed into the supreme court shall not thereby be divested or vacated, but shall be continued unt…
(A) As used in this section:"Aid of execution" means an aid of execution under Chapter 2333. of the Revised Code, including the issuance of an order to a judgment debtor to appear for examination under section 2333.10 of the Revised Code."Certificate of judgment" means a certificate issued by a clerk of courts in which…
(A) If a decree of foreclosure has been entered with respect to residential real property but the property has not been sold or a sale of the property is not underway, then, beginning twelve months after the entry of the decree of foreclosure, either of the following may occur: (1) The local political subdivision may r…
Any judgment for money rendered in a court of record in this state upon any indebtedness which is secured or evidenced by a mortgage, or other instrument in the nature of a mortgage, on real property or any interest therein, upon which real property there has been located a dwelling or dwellings for not more than two f…
The writ of execution against the property of a judgment debtor issuing from a court of record shall command the officer to whom it is directed to levy on the goods and chattels of the debtor. If no goods or chattels can be found, the officer shall levy on the lands and tenements of the debtor. If the court rendering t…
(A) When a judgment creditor files a praecipe for a writ of execution with a clerk of a common pleas court pursuant to section 2303.11 of the Revised Code, or with a clerk of a municipal court pursuant to section 1901.23 of the Revised Code, or with a clerk of the county court pursuant to section 1907.47 of the Revised…
When two or more writs of execution against the same debtor are delivered to the officer to whom they are directed on the same day, no preference shall be given to either of such writs. If a sufficient sum of money is not made to satisfy all such executions, the amount made shall be distributed to the several creditors…
The officer to whom a writ of execution is delivered shall proceed immediately to levy it upon the goods and chattels of the debtor. If no goods and chattels can be found, the officer shall indorse on the execution the words "no goods," and forthwith levy it upon the lands and tenements of the debtor which are liable t…
When a sheriff, coroner, or other officer, by virtue of an execution, levies upon goods and chattels which afterward remain upon his hands unsold for want of bidders, for the want of time to advertise and sell, or for other reasonable cause, for his own security, he may take of the defendant a bond with security in suc…
(A) Goods and chattels levied upon by virtue of an execution of a court of record shall not be sold until both of the following occur:(1)(a) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1)(b) of this section, the judgment creditor who seeks the sale of the goods and chattels or the judgment creditor's attorney does bot…
When goods and chattels levied upon by execution cannot be sold for want of bidders or for want of time, the officer who makes the return shall annex to the execution a true inventory of the goods and chattels remaining unsold. The plaintiff in that execution may have another execution issued directing the sale of the…
All sales of goods and chattels shall be at public auction unless the court from which an execution or order of sale issues, or a judge thereof in vacation, for good cause shown, on application of either party and due notice to the adverse party, makes an order directing the sheriff, or other officer holding the proces…
Except as provided in sections 2329.152 to 2329.154 of the Revised Code, all public auctions of goods, chattels, or lands levied upon by execution shall be conducted personally by one of the following:(A) An officer of the court;(B) For the public auction of goods and chattels, a resident of this state licensed as an a…