• Current through October 23, 2012

The writ of fieri facias may be levied on all goods and chattels of the debtor not exempt from execution, and upon money, bills, checks, promissory notes, or bonds, or certificates of stock in corporations owned by the debtor, and upon his money in the hands of the marshal or his deputy or other officer or person charged with the execution of the writ. A writ of fieri facias issued from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or the Superior Court of the District of Columbia upon a judgment entered in such court may be levied on all legal leasehold and freehold estates of the debtor in land, but only after such judgment has been filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia.

(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 526, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1; July 5, 1966, 80 Stat. 264, Pub. L. 89-493, § 12; Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1178, Pub. L. 89-745, § 5; Mar. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 42, Pub. L. 90-263, § 3; July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 553, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 144(7).)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 15-311.

1973 Ed., § 15-311.