Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 23115

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(a) All sales of property under execution must be held in a city, town, or village in the district where said property or some part thereof is situated, and must be made at auction, to the highest bidder, between the hours of 9 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon.

(b) After sufficient property has been sold to satisfy the execution, no more can be sold.

(c) Neither the officer holding the execution nor his deputy can become a purchaser or be interested in any purchase at such sale.

(d) When the sale is under execution and

(1) is of personal property capable of manual delivery, it must be within view of those who attend the sale, and be
sold in such parcels as are likely to bring the highest price;
and

(2) when the sale is of real property, consisting of several known lots or parcels, they must be sold separately; or

(3) when a portion of said real property is claimed by a third person, and he requires it to be sold separately, such portion can be thus sold.

(d) The judgment debtor, if present at the sale, may also direct the order in which property, real property, real or personal, shall be sold, when such property consist of several known lots or parcels, or of articles which can be sold to advantage separately, and the commissioner must follow his directions.

SOURCE: CCP § 694.

2018 NOTE: Subsection/subitem designations were added by the
Compiler pursuant to authority by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.