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Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944 (Act No. 32 of 1944)

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Rules Regulating the Conduct of the Proceedings on the Magistrates' Courts of South Africa

36. Process in execution

 

(1) The process for the execution of any judgment for the payment of money, for the delivery of property whether movable or immovable, or for ejectment shall be by warrant issued and signed by the registrar or clerk of the court and addressed to the sheriff.

 

(2) A process issued under subrule (1) may be sued out by any person in whose favour any such judgment shall have been given, if such judgment is not then satisfied, stayed or suspended.

 

(3) A process issued under subrule (1) may at any time, on payment of the fees incurred, be withdrawn or suspended by notice to the sheriff by the party who has sued out such process: Provided that a request in writing made from time to time by such party to defer execution of such process for a definite period not being longer than one month shall not be deemed to be a suspension.

 

(4) Any alteration in a process issued under subrule (1) shall be initialled by the registrar or clerk of the court before it is issued by him or her.

 

(5) The registrar or clerk of the court shall at the request of a party entitled thereto reissue process issued under subrule (1) without the court having sanctioned the reissue.

 

(6) Any process issued under subrule (1) shall be invalid if a wrong person is named therein as a party, but no such process shall be invalid merely by reason of the misspelling of any name therein, or of any error as to date.

 

(7) Except where judgment has been entered by consent or default, process in execution of a judgment shall not be issued without leave of the court applied for at the time of granting the judgment, before the day following that on which the judgment is given.