Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

550.04 EXECUTION, HOW ISSUED; CONTENTS. The execution shall be under the seal of the court, subscribed by the court administrator, directed to the sheriff, or to the coroner if the sheriff be a party or interested, or to the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's attorney, …

550.051 TERM OF WRIT OF EXECUTION; INVENTORY; SATISFACTION. § Subdivision 1.Time periods. The writ of execution expires 180 days after its issuance by the court administrator. A levy that is served with a writ of execution that has expired is void. If the officer or creditor's at…

550.06 EXECUTION AFTER DEATH. After the expiration of one year from the death of a party against whom judgment has been rendered, execution thereon may be issued against any property upon which such judgment was a lien at the time of the party's death, and may be executed in the …

550.07 ISSUANCE OF EXECUTION. When the execution is against the personal property or money of the judgment debtor, it may be issued to the sheriff of any county from the district court where the judgment was originally docketed. When it requires the delivery of real property, it …

550.08 EXECUTION AGAINST PROPERTY, HOW EXECUTED. The officer shall execute the writ against the property of the judgment debtor by levying upon the same, collecting the things in action, or selling the same if the court so orders, selling the other property, except as provided in…

550.09 LEVY ON MONEY. When coin of the United States, or bills or other evidence of debt issued by the United States or by any moneyed corporation and circulated as money, are seized upon execution, the officer shall pay and return the same as so much money collected. History: (9…

550.10 PROPERTY LEVIED ON, LIEN. All property, real and personal, including rights and shares in the stock of corporations, money, book accounts, credits, negotiable instruments, and other evidences of indebtedness, may be levied upon and sold on execution. Until a levy, property…

550.11 LEVY ON PROPERTY SUBJECT TO JUDGMENT LIEN; RELEASE. It shall be deemed a sufficient levy upon property subject to the lien of the judgment if the officer make a minute on the execution, stating the time when it was delivered to the officer, and that at such time the office…

550.12 LEVY ON PERSONALTY. Personal property capable of manual delivery shall be levied upon by the officer taking it into custody. History: (9427) RL s 4298

550.13 LEVY ON BULKY ARTICLES. When personal property, by reason of its bulk or other cause, cannot be immediately removed, it shall be a sufficient levy thereon if the officer, within three days thereafter, file in the appropriate filing office under the Uniform Commercial Code,…

550.135 SHERIFF'S LEVY ON OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY, MONEY, OR INDEBTEDNESS. § Subdivision 1.Scope of general and specific provisions. General provisions relating to the sheriff's levy upon personal property not covered elsewhere in this chapter and upon money or indebtedness are s…

550.136 SHERIFF'S LEVY OF EARNINGS. § Subdivision 1.Procedure. When earnings are levied upon by the sheriff, this section must be complied with, in addition to the general provisions specified in section 550.135. § Subd. 2.Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following …

550.142 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES; WAGES, EXECUTION LEVY. The salary or earnings of any public employee or officer may be levied upon pursuant to sections 550.135 and 550.136. Where the judgment debtor is an officer, the writ shall be served upon the auditor, treasurer, or clerk of the su…

550.143 LEVY ON FUNDS AT A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION. § Subdivision 1.Procedure. When the sheriff is levying upon funds at a financial institution, this section must be complied with, in addition to the general provisions set forth in section 550.135. § Subd. 2.Disclosure form. Along…

550.15 CERTIFICATE TO BE FURNISHED OFFICER. When the officer, with a writ of attachment or an execution against the defendant, applies to any person mentioned in section 550.135 for the purpose of attaching or levying upon property mentioned therein, such person shall furnish the…

550.16 LEVY ON PLEDGED OR MORTGAGED CHATTELS. When personal property is pledged or mortgaged for the payment of money or the performance of any contract or agreement, the right and interest of the pledgor or mortgagor in such property may be sold on execution against the pledgor …

550.17 LEVY ON GROWING CROPS. A levy may be made upon any unharvested crops, but no sale shall be made until they are ripe or fit to be harvested. Any levy under an execution issued by a court shall be continued beyond its return day if necessary and its execution may be complete…

550.175 EXECUTION ON REAL PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES HOMESTEAD. § Subdivision 1.Order directing sale of real property. The executing creditor must obtain an order from the court directing a sale of the real property that includes a homestead before service of the notice of execution …

550.18 NOTICE OF SALE. Before the sale of property on execution notice shall be given as follows: (1) if the sale be of personal property, by giving ten days posted notice of the time and place thereof; (2) if the sale be of real property, on execution or on judgment, by six week…

550.19 SERVICE ON JUDGMENT DEBTOR. If the sale is of personal property, at or before the time of posting notice of sale, the officer shall serve a copy of the execution and inventory, and of the notice, upon the judgment debtor, if the debtor is a resident of the county, in the m…

550.20 SALE, WHEN AND HOW. The sale shall be by auction, between 9:00 a.m. and sunset, in the county where the property or some part thereof is situated. If the sale is of personal property capable of manual delivery, it shall be within view of those who attend, and shall be sold…

550.206 REPORT OF SALE OF HOMESTEAD ON EXECUTION; CONFIRMATION; RESALE. Upon sale of a homestead on execution, the sheriff shall file a report of the sale with the court. Upon the filing of the report of sale, the court shall grant an order confirming the sale, or, if it appears …

550.21 SALE OF CORPORATE STOCK. In case of the sale of any rights or shares in the stock of a corporation, the sheriff shall execute to the purchaser a certificate of such sale, which shall transfer to the purchaser all the rights of the judgment debtor in respect thereto. Histor…

550.22 CERTIFICATE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY. When a sale of real property is made upon execution, or pursuant to a judgment or order of a court, unless otherwise specified therein, the officer shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a certificate containing: (1) a description …

550.23 INTEREST OF PURCHASER SUBJECT TO ATTACHMENT OR JUDGMENT. The interest acquired upon any sale is subject to the lien of an attachment or judgment duly made or docketed against the person holding the same, as in case of real property, and may be attached or sold on execution…

550.24 REDEMPTION OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) Upon the sale of real property, if the estate sold is less than a leasehold of two years' unexpired term, the sale is absolute. In all other cases the property sold, or any portion thereof which has been sold separately, is subject to redem…

550.26 REDEMPTION, HOW MADE. The person desiring to redeem shall pay to the person holding the right acquired under such sale, or for the person to the sheriff or the court administrator of the district court of the county in which the real property is situated, the amount requir…

550.27 CERTIFICATE OF REDEMPTION; EFFECT OF REDEMPTION. The person or officer from whom such redemption is made shall execute to the person redeeming a certificate in substantially the same form as the certificate required by law to be executed on redemption from a sale of real p…

550.28 SALE IRREGULAR OR JUDGMENT REVERSED. If the purchaser of real property sold on execution, or the purchaser's successor in interest, be evicted therefrom in consequence of irregularities in the proceedings concerning the sale, or of the reversal or discharge of the judgment…

550.29 REDEMPTION PENDING ACTION TO SET ASIDE EXECUTION SALE. When an action is brought to set aside an execution sale of land, and the time of redemption from such sale may expire before final judgment therein, any person having the right to redeem therefrom, for the purpose of …

550.30 CREDITOR MAY REDEEM IN CERTAIN CASES. Any creditor whose claim shall have been proved and allowed by a court of this state against the estate of a deceased debtor shall have the right, as a creditor of such decedent, to redeem the lands of the decedent from a sale thereof …

550.31 CREDITOR TO RECORD ORDER WITH COUNTY RECORDER. For the purpose of such redemption a creditor whose claim against the estate of a decedent shall have been so allowed shall record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the real estate sought to be redeem…

550.32 RECORDING TO DETERMINE PRIORITY. In the event more than one such proved and allowed claim shall be so recorded for the purposes of such redemption, then, as between the owners of such claims, their right to redeem shall be in the order in which such claims were originally …

550.33 CREDITOR MAY REDEEM WHEN. If no redemption is made by the personal representative of the deceased debtor, or by the assigns of such decedent, within one year after the date of such sale, or within one year after the date of the confirmation of such sale, as the case may be…

550.34 DISTRICT COURT TO DETERMINE AMOUNT. When any such creditor redeems from the foreclosure of a mortgage under the provisions of sections 550.30 to 550.35 the district court shall determine the amount that shall be credited on the creditor's claim against the estate. History:…

550.35 REDEMPTION. Except as provided in sections 550.30 to 550.34, all such redemption shall have the force and be governed by and subject to all of the requirements of the statutes relating to the redemption of real estate from mortgage and execution sales now or hereafter in f…

550.36 STAY OF EXECUTION ON MONEY JUDGMENT. (a) This section is an alternative to the Minnesota Rule of Civil Appellate Procedure, Rule 108.02, subdivision 3. Execution of a judgment for the payment of money only shall be stayed during the course of all appeals or discretionary a…

550.365 MEDIATION NOTICE AND REQUIREMENTS FOR AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY. § Subdivision 1.Requirement. A person may not attach, execute on, levy on, or seize agricultural property subject to sections 583.20 to 583.32 that has secured a debt of more than the amount provided in section …

550.366 JUDGMENTS ON DEBTS RELATED TO AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given: (1) "Agricultural property" means personal property that is used in a farm operation. (2) "Farm debtor" means a per…

550.37 PROPERTY EXEMPT. § Subdivision 1.Exemption. The property mentioned in this section is not liable to attachment, garnishment, or sale on any final process, issued from any court. § Subd. 2.Sacred possessions. The Bible, Torah, Qur'an, prayer rug, and other religious items i…

550.371 EXEMPTIONS IN JOINT BANKRUPTCY. § Subdivision 1.Applicable law. Except as provided in this section, the exemptions set forth in subsection (d) of section 522 of the Bankruptcy Act, United States Code, title 11, section 522(d), shall be available to residents of this state…

550.38 VETERAN'S PENSION, BONUS, OR COMPENSATION. All moneys paid to any person as a veteran's pension, bonus, adjusted compensation, allotment, or other benefit by the state of Minnesota or by the United States are exempt from, and shall not be liable to, attachment, garnishment…

550.39 EXEMPTION OF INSURANCE POLICIES. The net amount payable to any insured or to any beneficiary under any policy of accident or disability insurance or under accident or disability clauses attached to any policy of life insurance shall be exempt and free and clear from the cl…

550.41 LEVY ON PROPERTY IN EXCESS OF EXEMPTION. When the officer holding an execution is of the opinion that the judgment debtor has more property of the classes specified in section 550.37 than is exempt the officer may levy upon the whole of any one class and make an inventory …

550.42 WAIVER OF AGRICULTURAL DEBTOR'S RIGHTS. § Subdivision 1.Waiver is void. (a) A waiver of statutory rights of a debtor in a contract, loan agreement, or security agreement as a condition for a loan of money for agricultural production is void unless the waiver is expressly a…