Title 9, Title 9 and Civil Procedure — Procedure Generally

The court issuing an execution in any case in which no form shall be prescribed may vary the forms as provided in this chapter so as to comply with the law governing the particular case.

The clerk of any court or justice issuing an execution shall note on the margin or in the body thereof the time when the judgment recited in the execution was rendered, and if the execution was awarded against the defendant in an action brought against him or her upon any penal s…

An execution, original, alias, or pluries, may issue against the body of a defendant not exempt from arrest in an action which shall have been brought upon a penal statute, or in an action sounding in tort in which the title to real estate was not in dispute, or against bail in c…

No execution shall issue against the body of any female on any judgment founded on a contract where the debt or damages do not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00); but in such case, the execution shall issue against the goods and chattels and real estate of the female against whom the …

Whenever any court shall render final judgment for debts or damages in two (2) or more personal actions pending at the same time, in which the parties shall be reversed, and shall sue and be sued in the same right and capacity, the court shall set off the debts or damages recover…

The superior court, family court, or district court, at any time upon application made by the party in favor of whom any original, alias, or pluries execution has issued and upon proof that the execution has been lost or destroyed previous to the satisfaction thereof, may issue, …

Executions shall issue at the request of the moving party, unless stayed by applicable procedural rules or unless otherwise ordered or provided by law; however, no execution shall issue before forty-eight (48) hours have elapsed after the entry of judgment.

Every execution issued by the supreme or superior or family court shall, unless otherwise specially provided therein, be made returnable thereto one year from the date of the execution, and shall be returned by the officer charged therewith; and if the officer shall not return th…

Every execution issued by any district court shall, unless otherwise specially provided therein, be returnable one year after the date thereof, and be returned to the district court which issued it.

Whenever the court in which an original writ is returnable shall release the defendant therein from arrest and discharge the bail, if any taken thereon, the execution in such actions shall not issue against the body of the defendant so released, but against his or her goods and c…

Whenever final judgment or decree shall be rendered for the plaintiff in any action or suit in which a writ was served attaching real estate, or goods and chattels, or stock or shares in any incorporated company, the execution issued on the judgment or decree shall be levied on t…

If any person named as the trustee of a defendant, who shall have been charged as trustee by reason of his or her default, shall make affidavit as to whether or not he or she had personal property of the defendant in his or her hands or possession at the time of the service of a …

Whenever a writ of execution is issued by the superior court or district court against real estate, title to which is held in the name of a partnership, the writ shall include, among other things, the name of the partnership.

Executions, original or alias, may be issued by any court at any time within six (6) years from the rendition of the judgment originally or from the return day of the last execution; provided that, no execution shall be filed against a defendant’s principal residence for a judgme…

Any justice of the supreme, superior, or district court may, upon motion and for cause shown, stay execution upon any judgment or decree rendered in any court, until further order. With respect to a judgment or decree for child support, good cause shall be deemed to be shown when…

No person shall be entitled to an execution until the fee therefor shall have been paid.

Executions issued by any court shall issue in the name of the state of Rhode Island and shall be signed, sealed, and run in like manner as original writs.

A writ of execution issued by the superior court shall be substantially in the following form: THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. SC. To the sheriffs of our several counties, or to their deputies, (SEAL) Greeting: Whereas .......... of .......... by the consideration of the SUPERIOR COUR…

A writ of execution issued by a district court shall be substantially in the following form: THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. SC. To the sheriff, his or her deputy or to either of the town sergeants or constables in the county of ........................................ (SEAL) Greeting…

(a) Writs of possession issuing from the superior court shall be substantially in the following form: THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. SC. To the sheriffs of our several counties or to their deputies or to a certified constable, (SEAL) ........................ ; .......................…