815.24 Indemnity may be required. If there is any reasonable doubt as to the ownership of the property or as to its liability to be taken on the execution the officer may require sufficient security to indemnify the officer for levying upon such property.
History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.24; 1993 a. 486.
The term “reasonable" requires that the officer provide a reason for requiring security. Ter Maat v. Barnett, 156 Wis. 2d 737, 457 N.W.2d 551 (Ct. App. 1990).
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
815.02 - Judgments, enforced by execution.
815.04 - Execution, when issued.
815.05 - Execution, how issued; contents.
815.06 - Execution, when returnable.
815.07 - To what county issued.
815.08 - Sheriff to endorse date of receipt.
815.09 - Execution against debtor's person.
815.10 - Execution against body only remedy, exception.
815.12 - Execution; death of person arrested.
815.14 - Execution after debtor's death.
815.15 - Execution after judgment creditor's death.
815.17 - Execution; who acts on sheriff's death or removal.
815.18 - Property exempt from execution.
815.19 - Levy on personal property; appraisal.
815.195 - Levy on real property; how made.
815.20 - Homestead exemption definition.
815.205 - Certain property of spouse exempt from execution.
815.21 - Homestead, how set apart after levy.
815.24 - Indemnity may be required.
815.25 - Money applied; negotiable instruments sold.
815.29 - Notice of sale of personal property, manner, adjournment.
815.31 - Notice of sale of realty; manner; adjournment.
815.33 - Execution; sale in parcels; limitation.
815.34 - Execution sale without notice.
815.35 - Execution; taking down notice.
815.36 - Execution sale, want of notice, when immaterial.
815.37 - Execution sale; officer not to purchase.
815.38 - Execution, certificate of sale, recording.
815.39 - Execution sale; redemption of real estate.
815.40 - Execution sale; who may redeem.
815.43 - Execution sale; redemption makes sale void.
815.44 - Execution; purchaser's interest.
815.48 - Execution sale; creditors may acquire title of preceding creditor.
815.52 - Payment on acquisition of purchaser's or creditor's interest.
815.53 - Execution sale; evidences of right of creditor to acquire title.
815.54 - Execution sale, title when divested, action for injury to premises.
815.55 - Execution sale; deed when to issue; limitation.
815.56 - Sheriff's deed; grantee if purchaser dead.
815.57 - Sheriff's deed, recovery of purchase price on eviction.
815.58 - Execution sale; judgment, creditor's further remedy.
815.59 - Contribution when lands of several are sold on execution.
815.61 - Proceedings to recover contribution.
815.62 - Lien, how preserved after execution sale; clerk's fee.