2017 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 815. Executions.
815.38 Execution, certificate of sale, recording.

Universal Citation: WI Stat § 815.38 (2017)

815.38 Execution, certificate of sale, recording.

(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.

(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.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.38; 1993 a. 301.

Cross-references: 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.

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