{"id":5998,"date":"2017-11-01T02:18:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5998"},"modified":"2017-11-01T02:18:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:18:13","slug":"writ-of-fieri-facias-directs-a-marshal-or-sheriff-to-seize-sell-a-judgment-debtors-property-to-satisfy-a-money-judgment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5998","title":{"rendered":"Writ of fieri facias – directs a marshal or sheriff to seize & sell a judgment debtor’s property to satisfy a money judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writ of fieri facias<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Latin \u201cthat you cause to be done\u201d] (15c) A writ of execution that\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>directs a marshal or sheriff to seize and sell a judgment debtor\u2019s property to satisfy a\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>money judgment<\/strong>; EXECUTION (4). \u2013 Abbr. fi. fa. Pa. \u2013 Also termed execution writ<\/em>;<\/span>
\nwrit of execution. Cf. LEVARI FACIAS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from John Bouvier, Bouvier\u2019s Law Dictionary (Francis Rawle ed.,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>8th ed. 1914)<\/em><\/a>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt receives its name from the Latin words in the writ\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(quod fieri facias de bonis et catallis, that you cause to be made\u00a0of the goods and chattels). It is the form of execution in\u00a0common use in levying upon the judgment-debtor\u2019s personal\u00a0<\/span>property.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from 30 Am. Jur. 2d Executions and Enforcement of Judgments \u00a7
\n14, at 50-51 (1994):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe writ of \u2018fieri facias\u2019<\/span> (commonly called a writ of \u2018fi\u00a0<\/em>fa\u2019)<\/em>, which commanded literally \u2018that you cause to be made,\u2019\u00a0<\/span>was an early common-law means of enforcing payment on a\u00a0<\/span>judgment; it was, in effect, an order to the sheriff of the court\u00a0<\/span>to enforce a judgment against the debtor by levy, seizure, &\u00a0<\/span>sale of his personalty to the extent needed to satisfy a\u00a0<\/span>judgment.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fieri<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Latin] (17c.) To be made; to be done.<\/strong> Fieri usually appears as part of the\u00a0<\/span>phrase in jieri. See IN FIERI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n