Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 2331 · 16 active provisions
An execution against the person of a judgment debtor shall require the officer to arrest such debtor and commit him to the jail of the county until he pays the judgment, or is discharged according to law.
An execution against the person of a debtor may be issued upon any judgment for the payment of money:(A) When the judgment debtor has removed, or begun to remove, any of his property out of the jurisdiction of the court, with intent to prevent the collection of the money due on the judgment;(B) When the judgment debtor…
An execution against the person of the debtor, except as prescribed in section 2331.05 of the Revised Code, can be issued only when allowed by the supreme court, court of appeals, court of common pleas, probate court, or any judge of such courts, upon being satisfied, by the affidavit of the judgment creditor or his at…
A judge of a county court may issue an execution against the person of a judgment debtor, upon being satisfied of the existence of one or more of the particulars mentioned in section 2331.02 of the Revised Code, by affidavit and evidence as required in section 2331.03 of the Revised Code.
When the judgment debtor was arrested before judgment and has not been released from imprisonment by an application for relief as an insolvent debtor, and the order for such arrest has not been adjudged improper, an execution against the person of such judgment debtor may issue as a matter of course.
A person taken in execution as provided in sections 2331.01 to 2331.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code, must be discharged by delivering or setting off to the officer who serves the writ, if issued from a court of record, real or personal property, or if issued by a judge of a county court, personal property only, suff…
A person imprisoned under sections 2331.01 to 2331.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is entitled to prison bounds, as prescribed by sections 2331.15 and 2331.16 of the Revised Code. In case the person is out of jail in prison bounds, the judgment creditor, upon whose judgment he was imprisoned, is entitled to executi…
The death of a person under arrest in an action shall not satisfy the judgment, but an execution may issue thereon as if no arrest had been made.
If a person who is imprisoned under an order of arrest made before judgment is not charged in execution within ten days after judgment, he shall be discharged from such imprisonment.
A person imprisoned under sections 2331.01 to 2331.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or upon an order of arrest before judgment in civil cases, who is unable to perform the act or endure the imprisonment, may be discharged therefrom upon such terms as are just by the court out of which the process was issued, or a ju…
(A) The following persons are privileged from arrest:(1) Members, the chief administrative officer of the house of representatives, the clerk of the house of representatives, clerks, sergeants at arms, and staff of the senate and house of representatives, during the sessions of the general assembly, and while traveling…
No person shall be arrested during a sitting of the senate or house of representatives, within the hall where such session is being held, or in any court of justice, during the sitting of such court, or on Sunday, or on the fourth day of July.
Sections 2331.11 to 2331.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not extend to cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, nor do they privilege any person specified in such sections from being served with a summons or notice to appear. Arrests not contrary to such sections made in any place or on any river or wate…
A person arrested contrary to sections 2331.11 to 2331.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be discharged by a writ of habeas corpus, or in a summary way, by motion before the court from which the process issued, at the cost of the party who sued out the process.
A person imprisoned for debt is entitled to the privilege of prison bounds, which shall be coextensive with the limits of the county. Such prisoner shall not pass over or without such limits.
A prisoner is not entitled to the privilege of prison bounds until he gives bond to the creditors, with two or more sureties, resident in the county, approved by the judge or mayor who issued the process, or, in other cases, by the probate judge, in double the sum for which he stands committed, for his safe continuance…