North Dakota Code 32-08.1-21 – Judgment for plaintiff – How satisfied
When the plaintiff recovers judgment in the action, the sheriff or officer shall satisfy the same out of the property attached, if sufficient therefor:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 32-08.1-21
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- Writ: means an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the state or of a court or judicial officer. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
1. By paying over to such plaintiff all money attached or received upon sales of property, or upon any debts or credits, or so much thereof as shall be necessary.
2. By selling, under such execution as may be issued on such judgment, so much of the attached property, real or personal, as shall be necessary to satisfy the balance unpaid, according to the provisions regulating sales upon execution, except as provided in subsection 4.
3. If any of the attached property belonging to the defendant is not in the sheriff’s hands, without having been sold or converted into money, by repossessing the same, and for that purpose, the sheriff shall have all the authority which the sheriff had to seize the same under the writ of attachment. Any person who shall willfully conceal or withhold such property from the sheriff shall be liable to double damages at the suit of the party injured.
4. Until the judgment against the defendant shall be paid, by proceeding to collect the evidences of debt that may have been seized or attached by virtue of the writ of attachment, and to prosecute any bond the sheriff may have taken in the course of such proceedings, and apply the proceeds thereof to the payment of the judgment and costs. When the judgment and all costs of the proceedings shall have been paid, the sheriff, upon reasonable demand, shall deliver over to the defendant the residue of the property attached, or the proceeds thereof.