To ascertain the estate on which a writ of fieri facias issued by any court of record, or an execution issued by a justice of the peace, is a lien, and to ascertain any real estate in or out of this state to which a debtor named in such fieri facias or execution is entitled, […]
(a) Upon a suggestion by the judgment creditor that a person is indebted or liable to the judgment debtor or has in the person's possession or control personal property belonging to the judgment debtor, which debt or liability could be enforced when due, or which property could be recovered when it became returnable by the […]
The officer serving such summons upon a person suggested shall make a return of the time and manner of service on each person suggested.
If the debt or liability of the person suggested to the judgment debtor for the money or property owned or held by such person be evidenced by a negotiable instrument, and such instrument be negotiated after service on, or notice to, the person suggested, to a holder in due course, so that such person becomes […]
The answer of the person suggested shall state, in addition to the matters required to be disclosed by the summons mentioned in section ten of this article, the nature and amount of liability or indebtedness to the judgment debtor at the time of service of the summons, or a description of the property of the […]
A person suggested may, at any time before the return day of the summons mentioned in section ten of this article, deliver the property or pay the money for which the person is liable at the time of service of the summons, or a sufficiency thereof to satisfy the execution, and shall thereby be discharged […]
If it appears from the answer of the person suggested that, at the time the writ of fieri facias was delivered to the officer to be executed, or thereafter, and before the time of the service of the summons, or the return day of the writ of fieri facias, whichever comes first, the person was […]
An order made against a person suggested shall have the effect of a judgment, and may be enforced in the same manner as any other judgment.
If any person suggested, summoned as provided in this article, fails to answer, the court may either compel the person to answer, or hear proof of the matters required by section fifteen of this article to be disclosed by the person's answer, concerning any debt or liability due by the person to, or personal property […]
When it is suggested by the judgment creditor in any case of suggestion that the person suggested has not fully disclosed the debts or liabilities due by the person to, or personal property in the person's possession or under the person's control of, the judgment debtor at the time of service of the summons, or […]
An officer receiving money in a suggestion proceeding shall, within thirty days after receiving it, make return thereof to the court or to the clerk's office of the court in which the judgment is, or, if it was rendered by a justice, to the clerk of the circuit court of the justice's county, and, for […]
The summons mentioned in the preceding section shall be directed to an officer of the county in which the commissioner before whom it is returnable resides, and shall be served in such county. Such summons shall be returnable not more than sixty days from its date. The debtor or other person served with such summons […]
For the recovery of any personal property or any claim on which a writ of fieri facias or an execution is a lien under this article, or the enforcement of any liability in respect to any such property, or for the enforcement of any debt or liability of any person to the judgment debtor, on […]
The judgment or decree for money recovered in any suit brought under the provisions of the preceding section shall be in favor of the judgment creditor to the amount of his lien and any costs and charges which he may be entitled to recover, and, as to the residue, shall be in favor of the […]
If property which is capable of being levied on under an execution is recovered in any suit brought under the provisions of section twenty of this article or in any proceeding in garnishment, it shall be subject to the lien of the execution under which the suit to recover such property was brought, and may […]
Although a judgment creditor avail himself of the proceeding in suggestion, or of the proceeding provided by sections one and twenty of this article, he may nevertheless, without impairing his lien under such proceedings, from time to time, subject to the limitations prescribed by law, issue other executions upon his judgment until the same be […]
Such questions and answers shall, if required by any party, be taken down in writing at the expense of the party requesting it and certified by the commissioner at the conclusion thereof. The commissioner shall enter in his proceedings, and report to the court whose clerk issued the summons aforesaid any and all objections taken […]
Any real estate outside this state, to which it may appear by such examination that the execution debtor is entitled, shall be forthwith conveyed by him to the officer to whom was delivered such fieri facias or execution; and any money, bank notes, securities, evidences of debt, or other personal estate, which it may appear […]
If any person summoned under the four preceding sections shall fail to appear and answer, or shall make any answers which are deemed by the commissioner to be evasive, or if having answered shall fail to make such conveyance, assignment and delivery as is required by such sections, such commissioner shall issue a writ directed […]
The commissioner shall return all questions and answers taken down in writing before or filed with him and shall report all of the proceedings under the preceding sections to the court in which the judgment is, or, if the judgment be before a justice, to the circuit court of the county in which such justice […]
