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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-66-101. Execution issued on final judgment order - An execution may issue on any final judgment order of...
§ 16-66-102. Execution on registered judgment from another county - The circuit court of any county in this state in...
§ 16-66-103. Execution may issue until collection barred - An execution may be issued upon a judgment at any...
§ 16-66-104. Procedure in issuing writs of execution - (a) Form — In General. The form of a writ...
§ 16-66-105. Debt, damages, and costs endorsed on execution - Every clerk of the courts of record in this state...
§ 16-66-106. Joint execution when judgment against several - On a judgment or decree against several, the execution must...
§ 16-66-107. Death of one or more plaintiffs - (a) The death of one (1) or all the plaintiffs...
§ 16-66-108. Death of part of defendants - The death of part only of the defendants shall not...
§ 16-66-109. Executions directed to any county without court order - Executions issued upon any judgment, order, or decree rendered in...
§ 16-66-110. Endorsement of sheriff - Every sheriff or other officer to whom any execution may...
§ 16-66-111. Priority of writs - If two (2) or more writs of execution come to...
§ 16-66-112. Time execution attaches as lien - An execution shall be a lien on the property in...
§ 16-66-113. Alias execution - (a) If an execution is issued and the plaintiff desires...
§ 16-66-114. Execution against corporations — Attachment - (a) The first process upon a judgment against any private...
§ 16-66-115. Abstract of execution - (a) The clerk shall keep a well-bound book in which...
§ 16-66-116. Conveyances by commissioners - (a) Real property may be conveyed by a commissioner appointed...
§ 16-66-117. Bonds in executions and judicial sales - (a) Every bond taken on the sale of property under...
§ 16-66-118. Defaults of officers - (a) Each officer to whom any execution is delivered shall...
§ 16-66-119. Immunity of law enforcement officers - Any sheriff or other law enforcement officer acting reasonably, in...
Subchapter 2 - Property Subject to Execution — Exemptions
§ 16-66-201. Property subject to execution - The following described property shall be liable to be seized...
§ 16-66-202. Married women's property subject to execution - Whenever a judgment has been recovered against a married woman,...
§ 16-66-203. Encumbered property - (a) Any property, real, personal, or mixed, may be subjected...
§ 16-66-204. Leases subject to execution — Exception - Every unexpired lease of lands shall be subject to execution...
§ 16-66-205. Exemption — Property of state - No property, whether real, personal, or mixed, or effects, credits,...
§ 16-66-206. Exemption — Improvements on public land - It is unlawful to levy upon and sell under any...
§ 16-66-207. Exemption — Family or public graveyards - (a) The clerk and recorder of deeds of the proper...
§ 16-66-208. Exemptions — Wages — Penalty - (a) (1) The wages of all laborers and mechanics not...
§ 16-66-209. Exemption — Proceeds of life, health, accident, and disability insurance — Definition - (a) To the extent permitted by the Arkansas Constitution, all...
§ 16-66-210. Homestead Exemption Act - (a) This section shall be known and may be cited...
§ 16-66-211. Claiming exemptions — Schedule of property — Stay of execution — Levy on remainder of property — Appeal - (a) (1) Whenever any resident of this state, upon the...
§ 16-66-212. Right of homestead not lost by failure to schedule — Wife may claim - (a) A debtor's right of homestead shall not be lost...
§ 16-66-213. Appraisal of property claimed as exempt - (a) Upon application to the justice or clerk by the...
§ 16-66-214. Effect of filing schedule — Sale stayed without bond — Penalty for sale of scheduled property - (a) When the schedule provided for in § 16-66-211 has...
§ 16-66-215. Evasion of exemption law in collection of debt — Penalty - Whoever, whether principal, agent, or attorney, under the statutes of...
§ 16-66-216. Assignment or transfer of debt — Penalty for evasion - Whoever, either directly or indirectly, assigns or transfers any claims...
§ 16-66-217. Election of bankruptcy exemptions - Residents of this state having the right to claim exemptions...
§ 16-66-218. Exemptions from execution under federal bankruptcy proceedings - (a) The following property shall be exempt from execution under...
§ 16-66-219. Wedding rings exempt - A person's wedding ring shall be exempt from attachment, execution,...
§ 16-66-220. Pension and profit-sharing plans - (a) (1) A person's right to the assets held in...
§ 16-66-221. Schedule of property — Filing - (a) Whenever any resident of this state has any final...
Subchapter 3 - Staying, Quashing, or Vacating Writ
§ 16-66-301. Petition to judge, stay, quash, or set aside execution — Proceedings - (a) If any person against whom any execution has been...
§ 16-66-302. Stay not allowed in specified instances - (a) No stay shall be allowed upon: (1) A judgment...
§ 16-66-303. Stay of execution — Bonds - (a) The defendants, except in cases otherwise provided for in...
§ 16-66-304. Sale of personal property suspended upon giving bond - (a) The sale of personal property upon which an execution...
§ 16-66-305. Waiver of right of stay - An agreement to waive the right of stay, or any...
Subchapter 4 - Levy and Sale
§ 16-66-401. Selection of property to be sold — Levy - The person against whom any execution may be issued may...
§ 16-66-402. Levy on real estate — Certificate of levy filed with recorder — Levy as notice to purchaser or mortgagee - (a) It shall be the duty of the sheriff, United...
§ 16-66-403. Levy on joint or partnership property — Assertion of claim - (a) Whenever a sheriff or other officer levies an execution...
§ 16-66-404. Levy on shares or stock in corporations — Statement of shares and encumbrances - (a) Whenever an officer, having an execution or writ of...
§ 16-66-405. Indemnifying bonds - (a) (1) If an officer who levies, or is required...
§ 16-66-406. Forthcoming bond by owner — Default - (a) (1) The owner of personal estate taken in execution...
§ 16-66-407. Expiration of term, death, etc., of officer after levy - (a) Where an officer has levied upon any goods and...
§ 16-66-408. Notice of sale of real and personal property — Advertisement - (a) The time and place of sale of real property...
§ 16-66-409. Time and method of sale - (a) All property taken in execution by any officer shall...
§ 16-66-410. Sale of real estate — Division into tracts - (a) In all sales of real estate, under execution, when...
§ 16-66-411. Sale of lands subject to prior liens - (a) A sale of lands under a junior judgment shall...
§ 16-66-412. Sale of corporate stock — Certificates of purchase - (a) Shares or stock levied upon or seized shall be...
§ 16-66-413. Sale on credit - (a) (1) In all cases where the right to stay...
§ 16-66-414. Default of bidder - (a) If any person refuses to pay the amount bid...
§ 16-66-415. Officers not to bid at sale - No officer to whom any execution may be directed, any...
§ 16-66-416. Return of execution - (a) All executions shall be returnable within ninety (90) days...
§ 16-66-417. Executions from court with similar jurisdiction to justice of the peace — Land exempt — Procedure when returned unsatisfied - (a) Land shall not be levied on or sold under...
§ 16-66-418. Discovery in aid of execution — Equitable proceedings — Attachment - (a) (1) After an execution of fieri facias directed to...
§ 16-66-419. Discovery in aid of execution — Deposition - (a) In any action in the circuit courts of this...
§ 16-66-420. Bill of sale — Delivery of property - When the purchaser of any goods and chattels pays the...
§ 16-66-421. Instrument of conveyance - (a) The officer who shall sell any real estate or...
§ 16-66-422. Execution of instrument conveying improvements on public land - The officer who sells any improvement on the public lands...
Subchapter 5 - Redemption
§ 16-66-501. Certificate of sale given purchaser by sheriff — Return of duplicate - The sheriff shall give the purchaser of any real property,...
§ 16-66-502. Time of redemption of real estate - When any real estate or any interest therein is sold...
§ 16-66-503. Manner of making redemption - The debtor may at any time within twelve (12) months...
§ 16-66-504. Right of judgment creditor to redeem — Entry of redemption upon execution book - (a) At any time before the expiration of twelve (12)...
§ 16-66-505. Redemption from judgment creditor by purchaser - (a) Unless the purchaser, within thirty (30) days from the...
§ 16-66-506. Priority of right of redemption - If any purchaser pays the amount bid by the judgment...
§ 16-66-507. Conveyance by sheriff — Right to possession - (a) After the time for redemption has expired, the sheriff...
Subchapter 6 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act
§ 16-66-601. Definition - In this subchapter, “foreign judgment” means any judgment, decree, or...
§ 16-66-602. Filing and status of foreign judgments - A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with...
§ 16-66-603. Notice of filing - (a) At the time of the filing of the foreign...
§ 16-66-604. Stay - (a) If the judgment debtor shows the court that an...
§ 16-66-605. Fees - Any person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the...
§ 16-66-606. Optional procedure - The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action...
§ 16-66-607. Uniformity of interpretation - This subchapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to...
§ 16-66-608. Short title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Uniform Enforcement of...