815.29 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.29.
815.31
815.31
Notice of sale of realty; manner; adjournment. 815.31(1)(1) The time and place of holding any sale of real estate on execution shall be publicly advertised by posting a written notice describing the real estate to be sold with reasonable certainty in 3 public places in the town or municipality where such real estate is to be sold at least 3 weeks prior to the date of sale; and also in 3 public places of the town or municipality in which the real estate is situated, if it is not in the town or municipality where the sale is to be held.
815.31(2)
(2) A copy of the notice of sale shall be printed each week for 6 successive weeks in a newspaper of the county prior to the date of sale.
815.31(3)
(3) If there be no newspaper published in the county and the premises are not occupied by any person against whom the execution is issued or by some person holding as tenant or purchaser under the person against whom the execution is issued, such notice shall be so published in a paper printed at Madison.
815.31(4)
(4) The court, or a judge, upon application of the party issuing the execution shall direct, by order, the newspaper in which the publication of the notice is to be made.
815.31(5)
(5) If at the time appointed for any such sale the sheriff considers it in the interest of all persons concerned, the sheriff may adjourn the sale from time to time, not exceeding in all 3 months. In case of such adjournment public notice thereof shall be given at the time and place fixed for the sale. If the adjournment shall be for more than one day further notice shall be given by posting or publishing the same, or both, as the time and circumstances may admit.
815.31(6)
(6) Every sale shall be at auction between 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
815.31 History
History: 1973 c. 189; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.31;
1993 a. 486.
815.33
815.33
Execution; sale in parcels; limitation. When real estate offered for sale on execution consists of several lots, tracts or parcels they shall be separately offered for sale; and if any person claiming to be the owner of any of such lots or parcels or an interest or estate therein or claiming to be entitled to redeem the same shall require it to be offered for sale separately, the sheriff shall offer the same for sale accordingly. No more shall be sold than shall appear necessary to satisfy the execution.
815.33 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.33.
815.34
815.34
Execution sale without notice. Any officer who shall sell real estate upon execution without having given the previous notices directed by
s. 815.31, or otherwise than in the manner prescribed by law, shall be liable to the party injured in the sum of $1,000 damage and also for the actual damages sustained.
815.34 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.34.
815.35
815.35
Execution; taking down notice. If any person shall take down or deface any notice of a sale upon execution put up by any officer, previous to the day of sale therein specified, unless upon satisfaction of the execution or upon the consent of the parties to the action, such person shall be liable to the party suing out such execution in the sum of $50.
815.35 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.35.
815.36
815.36
Execution sale, want of notice, when immaterial. The omission of any officer to give the notice of execution sale required or the taking down or defacing of any such notice shall not affect the validity of any sale made to a purchaser in good faith, without notice of any such omission or offense.
815.36 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.36.
815.37
815.37
Execution sale; officer not to purchase. The officer to whom any execution shall be directed and the officer's deputy holding any execution and conducting any sale in pursuance thereof shall not, directly or indirectly, purchase any property at such sale; and every purchase made by such officer or deputy, or to the officer's or deputy's use, shall be void.
815.37 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.37;
1993 a. 486.
815.38
815.38
Execution, certificate of sale, recording. 815.38(1)(1) Upon the sale of real estate on execution the officer making the same shall make out and subscribe duplicate certificates of such sale containing a particular description of the premises sold; the price bid for each distinct lot or parcel; the whole consideration money paid; and the time when such sale will become absolute and the purchaser will be entitled to a conveyance pursuant to law and shall record one of the duplicate certificates within 10 days after the sale in the office of the register of deeds and shall deliver the other to the purchaser. If there are 2 or more purchasers a certificate shall be delivered to each.
815.38(2)
(2) Promptly following every execution sale the sheriff shall return the execution into court and record with it a detailed report of his or her doings upon the execution.
815.38 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.38;
1993 a. 301.
815.38 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See s.
59.32 (2) for provision that sheriff is to collect his fees on execution in the same manner as the sum collected under the writ.
815.39
815.39
Execution sale; redemption of real estate. Within one year after an execution sale the real estate sold or any lot, tract or portion that was separately sold may be redeemed by the payment to the purchaser, to the purchaser's personal representatives or assigns, or to the then sheriff of the county where such real estate is situated, for the use of such purchaser, of the sum paid on the sale thereof, together with the interest from the time of the sale.
815.39 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.39;
1993 a. 486.
815.40
815.40
Execution sale; who may redeem. 815.40(1)
(1) Redemption from execution sale of real estate may be made by a person whose right and title was sold or, if the person is dead, by the person's devisee of the premises sold, and if the same shall not have been devised, by the deceased's heirs; or, by any grantee of such person who shall have acquired an absolute title to the premises sold, or to any lot, parcel or portion separately sold.
815.40(2)
(2) Any such heir or devisee or grantee who shall have acquired an absolute title to a portion of the estate sold or a portion of any lot, tract or parcel that shall have been separately sold may redeem the portion on the same terms and in the same manner as if the heir, devisee or grantee were grantee of the whole lot or parcel, and shall have the same remedy to enforce contributions from those who shall own the residue thereof as if the sum required to be paid by the heir, devisee or grantee to effect such redemption had been collected by a sale of the portion belonging to such grantee, heir or devisee.
815.40(3)
(3) If there be joint tenants or tenants in common in premises sold each tenant may redeem the share or interest belonging to that tenant by paying to the purchaser or officer, a sum that will bear the same proportion to the whole sum bid therefor as the redeemed share bears to the whole number of shares in such premises together with the interest.
815.40 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.40;
1993 a. 486.
815.43
815.43
Execution sale; redemption makes sale void. Upon redemption of any real estate sold on execution, the sale of the premises redeemed and the certificates of such sale, so far as they relate thereto, shall be null and void.
815.43 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.43.
815.44
815.44
Execution; purchaser's interest. 815.44(1)
(1)
Who may acquire. In case the premises sold on execution or any part of them shall not be redeemed within the year prescribed by
ss. 815.39 and
815.40 then the interest of the purchaser may be acquired within three months after the expiration of the redemption period by the persons and on the terms prescribed in this section.
815.44(2)
(2) Creditors, mortgagees, interest. Any creditor of the person against whom such execution issued having a judgment or a recorded mortgage which is a lien upon the premises sold, or upon any lot or parcel or portion separately sold, may within fifteen months from the time of such sale by paying the sum paid on the sale thereof, together with interest from the time of such sale, thereby acquire all the rights of the original purchaser, subject to be defeated in the manner mentioned in
s. 815.48.
815.44(3)
(3) Sales of undivided interests. Any owner of such judgment or mortgage which is a lien upon any undivided share or interest in any real estate sold under execution, may, within the same time, on the same terms and in the same manner, acquire the title of the original purchaser to such share or interest by paying such part of the whole purchase money of such real estate as shall be in a just proportion to the amount of such share or interest.
815.44 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.44.
815.48
815.48
Execution sale; creditors may acquire title of preceding creditor. Whenever any creditor shall acquire the title of the original purchaser, pursuant to
s. 815.44, any other creditor who might have acquired such title may become a purchaser thereof from the first creditor who acquired the same upon the following conditions:
815.48(1)
(1) By paying to such first creditor, the first creditor's personal representatives or assigns the sum which the first creditor paid to acquire such title, together with interest thereon from the time of the first creditor's payment.
815.48(2)
(2) If the judgment or mortgage by virtue of which the first creditor acquired the title of the original purchaser be prior to the judgment or mortgage of such 2nd creditor and is still a lien as to such 2nd creditor the 2nd creditor shall also pay to such first creditor the amount due on the first creditor's judgment or mortgage.
815.48(3)
(3) In the same manner any third or other creditor who might have acquired the title of the original purchaser may become a purchaser thereof from the second, third or other creditor who may have become such purchaser from any other creditor, upon the terms and conditions before specified in this section.
815.48(4)
(4) If the original purchaser of any premises shall also be a creditor of the defendant against whom the execution issued, and as such might acquire the title of any purchaser according to the preceding provisions, the original purchaser may avail himself or herself of his or her judgment or mortgage, in the manner and on the terms prescribed, to acquire the title which any creditor may have obtained.
815.48(5)
(5) But the judgment creditor, under whose execution the real estate was sold cannot acquire the title of the original purchaser or of any creditor to the premises so sold by virtue of the judgment on which such execution issued.
815.48 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.48;
1993 a. 486.
815.52
815.52
Payment on acquisition of purchaser's or creditor's interest. The sums required to be paid to acquire the title of the original purchaser at the execution sale or to become a purchaser from any creditor may be paid to such purchaser or creditor, to the purchaser's or creditor's representative or assigns or to the then sheriff of the county where the real estate is situated; upon such payment being made the title of the original purchaser shall be thereby transferred to the creditor acquiring the same and from such creditor to any other creditor becoming a purchaser thereof.
815.52 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.52;
1993 a. 486.
815.53
815.53
Execution sale; evidences of right of creditor to acquire title. To entitle any creditor to acquire the title of the original purchaser on the execution sale or to become a purchaser from any other creditor, the creditor shall exhibit to such purchaser or other creditor or to the sheriff the following evidences of the creditor's right:
815.53(1)
(1) A certified copy of the creditor's judgment or of the record of the creditor's mortgage.
815.53(2)
(2) A certified copy of all assignments of such judgment or mortgage which are necessary to establish the creditor's claim.
815.53(3)
(3) A certified copy of the creditor's letters of administration or letters testamentary, in case of an administrator or executor.
815.53(4)
(4) An affidavit of such creditor or his or her attorney, or agent stating the sum due on such judgment or the sum owing on such mortgage at the time of claiming such right to purchase. Within 3 days after making such acquisition such creditor shall record such evidences of his or her right in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the original certificate of sale is filed.
815.53 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.53;
1993 a. 301,
486;
1995 a. 224.
815.54
815.54
Execution sale, title when divested, action for injury to premises. The right and title of the person against whom the execution was issued, to any real estate which shall be sold thereby, shall not be divested by such sale until the expiration of fifteen months from the time of sale; and if such real estate shall not have been redeemed and a deed shall be executed in pursuance of a sale the grantee shall be vested with the legal estate from the time of the sale for the purpose of an action for an injury to such real estate.
815.54 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.54.
815.55
815.55
Execution sale; deed when to issue; limitation. If after the expiration of fifteen months from the time of the sale of any real estate upon execution any part of the premises sold shall remain unredeemed, the sheriff of the county in which such real estate is situated shall, on demand, execute a deed of the premises unredeemed to the person entitled thereto, which shall convey all the right, title and interest which was sold upon such execution. But no such deed shall be issued after twenty years from the date of the sale.
815.55 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.55.
815.56
815.56
Sheriff's deed; grantee if purchaser dead. In case the person who would be entitled to a deed of real estate sold on execution dies before the delivery of that deed the sheriff shall execute a deed to the person's executors or administrators. The real estate so conveyed shall be held in trust for the use of the heirs or devisees of the deceased person, subject to the surviving spouse's right to elect under
ss. 861.02 (1) and
861.03, but may be sold for the payment of debts in the same manner as lands of which the person died seized.
815.56 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975);
1975 c. 94 s.
91 (5);
1975 c. 199; Stats. 1975 s. 815.56;
1983 a. 186;
1985 a. 37;
1987 a. 393 s.
53.
815.57
815.57
Sheriff's deed, recovery of purchase price on eviction. If the purchaser of real estate sold on execution, the purchaser's heirs or assigns shall be evicted from such real estate, or if in an action for the recovery thereof judgment shall be rendered against the purchaser or the purchaser's heirs or assigns in consequence of any irregularity in such sale, or of the judgment upon which such execution issued being vacated or reversed, the purchaser or the purchaser's heirs or assigns may recover of the party for whose benefit such real estate was sold the amount paid on the purchase thereof, with interest.
815.57 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.57;
1993 a. 486.
815.58
815.58
Execution sale; judgment, creditor's further remedy. The party for whose benefit real estate was sold on execution and the party's personal representatives, upon recovery being had against him or her under
s. 815.57 in consequence of any irregularity in such sale, may have further execution upon the judgment to levy the sum paid on such sale, with interest. Such judgment shall be effectual for that purpose against the defendant, the defendant's personal representative, heirs and devisees; but not against any purchaser in good faith or any encumbrancer whose title or whose encumbrance accrued before the levy of such execution.
815.58 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.58;
1993 a. 486;
1995 a. 225.
815.59
815.59
Contribution when lands of several are sold on execution. 815.59(1)(1) When lands of several persons shall be liable to satisfy any final judgment and the whole of such judgment or more than a due proportion thereof shall be paid by one of such persons or shall be levied upon the lands of any one or more of such persons, the persons so aggrieved or their personal representatives may compel a just contribution by all the persons whose lands ought to contribute to said satisfaction.
815.59(2)
(2) Such lands are liable to contribution in the following order:
815.59(2)(a)
(a) If they were conveyed by the defendant in the execution, they are liable in succession, commencing with the lands last conveyed.
815.59(2)(b)
(b) If they were sold under execution against the defendant, they are liable in succession, commencing with the lands sold under the youngest judgment.
815.59(2)(c)
(c) If there be lands so liable, which were conveyed by the defendant in execution, and also lands which were sold under execution against the defendant the lands are liable in succession, according to the order herein prescribed.
815.59 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.59;
1993 a. 486.
815.61
815.61
Proceedings to recover contribution. In an action to compel contribution under
s. 815.59 the court shall, in a proper case, permit the plaintiff to use the original judgment and issue execution thereon, for the amount which ought to be contributed by the lands subject to the lien of such judgment, and for that purpose such original judgment shall remain a lien, when preserved as provided in
s. 815.62, for the term of 10 years from the date of the entry thereof, to the extent of the sum which ought to be so contributed, but in all cases such liens shall continue for the purposes above stated for 3 years after any sale under which contribution is claimed.
815.61 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.61.
815.62
815.62
Lien, how preserved after execution sale; clerk's fee. To preserve the lien of the original judgment upon lands and subject them to sale on execution under
s. 815.61, the person aggrieved shall, within 20 days after the payment for which he or she claims a contribution, file an affidavit with the clerk of circuit court in which the original judgment was rendered, stating the sum paid and his or her claim to use the judgment for the reimbursement of the payment. The clerk of circuit court shall enter in the judgment and lien docket the sum paid and that the judgment is claimed to be a lien in that amount. To preserve the lien upon property situated in a county other than the county where the circuit court that rendered the judgment is located, a similar affidavit and notice shall be filed with the clerk of circuit court for that county and a like entry made upon the judgment and lien docket in that county. The fee of the clerk of circuit court for making the entry is prescribed in
s. 814.61 (5).
815.62 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.62;
1981 c. 317;
1995 a. 224.
815.63
815.63
Sheriff's deed; writ of assistance. Whenever title has been perfected to any real estate sold on execution, or to any part or interest in the real estate, and the defendant in execution, or any other person claiming under the defendant by title accruing subsequently to the entry of the judgment in the judgment and lien docket upon which the judgment was issued, shall be in possession of that real estate or part or interest in that real estate, and, upon demand of the person in whom the title has been perfected, refuses to surrender the possession, the person may apply to the court from which the execution issued, by verified petition, for a writ of assistance to obtain possession. A copy of this petition, with a notice of the time and place when and where the petition will be presented, shall be served upon the person against whom the writ is issued at least 10 days before the petition is presented. The petition may be served as a summons in an action in the circuit court. The court may direct the writ to issue, and the writ shall be executed and return made in the same manner as upon a sale upon a judgment for foreclosure of a mortgage.
815.63 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.63;
1977 c. 449;
1995 a. 224.
815.63 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: The general provision for writs of assistance is s.
815.11.
815.64
815.64
Judgment lien, how discharged on redemption. When any judgment debtor or person claiming under the judgment debtor shall have redeemed the lands or any part thereof or interest therein sold on execution the person or officer to whom the redemption money was paid shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the redeemer a certificate, attested by two witnesses, stating the fact of such redemption, the date thereof, the amount of money paid, with a description of the lands or interests therein so redeemed. Such certificates may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the lands are situated, and shall be presumptive evidence of the redemption of the lands therein described from such sale and from the lien of the judgment by virtue of which such sale was made.
815.64 History
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 W (2d) 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.64;
1993 a. 486.
