Section 15-18-4 - Directions in writ to enforce judgment requiring sale of property--Issue to referee, sheriffor constable. - South Dakota Statutes

15-18-4. Directions in writ to enforce judgment requiring sale of property--Issue to referee, sheriff or constable. When a judgment requires the sale of property described therein, the same may be enforced by a writ reciting such judgment, or the material parts thereof, and directing the proper officer to execute the judgment by making the sale and applying the funds in conformity with its mandate. Such a judgment may direct that execution issue to a referee appointed by the court and named in the judgment, or to the sheriff or constable of the county in which the property described therein, or some part of it, is located. The sheriff, constable, or referee, hereinafter referred to as an officer, must execute a certificate of sale to the purchaser as provided in chapter 15-19.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.1903; SL 1973, ch 126, § 2.