fieri facias

A fieri facias, usually abbreviated fi.

Writs of fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis are unaffected.

The most usual form of enforcement is the issue of a writ of fieri facias (fi.

Writs of fieri facias are renamed writs of control.

If a plaintiff was successful before the court, the plaintiff could obtain a warrant of execution against the defendant's goods and chattels (called fieri facias).

The previous system of warrants of execution and writs of fieri facias was increasingly considered as cumbersome, confusing and old-fashioned.

In order to engage the services of an HCEO, a writ (of fieri facias) has to be obtained from the High Court.

Section 8 ordered that appraisals of property seized in execution of writs of fieri facias should follow the same rules as appraisals made for the relevant state courts.

Part 3 creates a new system of taking control of goods in order to enforce judgments and abolishes ancient common law writs and remedies such as fieri facias, replevin and distress for rent.

Sections 15 was repealed by the Schedule to the Sale of Goods Act 1893, but section 26 that act continued the requiment that the date be entered on the fieri facias or other writ of execution.

In order to execute a money judgment against personal property, such as vehicles, furniture, clothing, jewelry, equipment, appliances, and the like, the creditor must obtain what is called a "writ of fieri facias" (often abbreviated to "fi fa").

This writ was once so common that fieri facias became a slang term for a sheriff, with a pun on the "fiery [ruddy] face" of habitual drunkenness, or for anyone with a ruddy complexion.

Section 15 provides that fieri facias or other writs of execution are effective against goods from the date given it is given to the sheriff and the sheriff shall write on the back of it the day, month and year he received it without a fee.

In order to appoint an HCEO, the County Court judgment is transferred to the High Court and a writ of fieri facias is issued (this will be called a writ of control once the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Part 3 comes fully into force).

But this statute provided that henceforth it should be in the election of the party having recovered judgment to have a writ of fieri facias unto the sheriff on lands and goods or else ail the chattels of the debtor and the one half of his lands until the judgment be satisfied.

In England and Wales, the writ of fieri facias, except for writs of fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, will be renamed a writ of control when s62(4) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 comes into force.