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...(A) If property is sold online, the sheriff or private selling officer shall require persons seeking to bid to register online with the web site as a condition of being authorized to bid. The registration form shall include information relevant to the objective of enabling the sheriff or private selling officer to identify the bidder, contact the bidder, and complete the sale of the property. (B) If an attorney or a...

...(A) When execution is levied upon lands and tenements, the sheriff shall call an inquest of three disinterested freeholders, who are residents of, and real property owners in, the county where the lands taken in execution are situated, who shall appraise the property so levied upon, upon actual view. (B) If the property to be appraised is residential property, the freeholders selected by the sheriff shall return to ...

...(A) All levying officers appointed or authorized by a court under this chapter to conduct the judicial or execution sale of residential property consisting of one to four single-family units shall submit quarterly reports to the attorney general. The reports shall include data on each such sale conducted by the officer, including data showing whether or not the deadlines required under division (E) of section 2308.02...

...An execution against the person of a debtor may be issued upon any judgment for the payment of money: (A) When the judgment debtor has removed, or begun to remove, any of his property out of the jurisdiction of the court, with intent to prevent the collection of the money due on the judgment; (B) When the judgment debtor has property, rights in action, evidences of debt, or interest or stock in a corporation or co...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Coroner" has the same meaning as in section 313.01 of the Revised Code, and includes the following: (a) The coroner of a county other than a county in which the death occurred or the dead human body was found if the coroner of that other county performed services for the county in which the death occurred or the dead human body was found; (b) A medical examiner appointed by th...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, in any civil action in a court of common pleas in which a jury is sworn and a verdict is returned, the fees of the jurors sworn shall be taxed as costs unless the court determines that the payment of the fees by a party against whom they are proposed to be taxed would not be in the interest of justice. (B)(1) If a civil action in a court of common pleas i...

...As used in sections 2337.01 to 2337.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Action" means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim. (B) "Bank-offered spot rate" means the spot rate of exchange at which a bank will sell foreign money at a spot rate. (C) "Conversion date" means the banking day next preceding the date on which money, in acc...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim must be stated in an amount of the money of the claim. (B) A judgment or award on a foreign-money claim is payable in that foreign money or, at the option of the debtor, in the amount of United States dollars which will purchase that foreign money on the conversion date at a bank-offered spot rate. (C) Assessed cost...

...The state shall be divided into twelve judicial court of appeals districts. The counties constituting the districts are as follows: (A) First district: Hamilton; (B) Second district: Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Champaign, Clark, and Greene; (C) Third district: Mercer, Van Wert, Paulding, Defiance, Henry, Putnam, Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Logan, Union, Seneca, Shelby, Marion, Wyandot, and Crawford; (D) Fourt...

...(A) There shall be nine additional judges of the court of appeals of the eighth district, composed of Cuyahoga county. Three of the additional judges of the eighth district court of appeals shall be elected at the general election in 1962 for a term of six years, their terms to commence on successive days beginning on the first day of January, 1963. Three of the additional judges of the eighth district court of appe...

...Cases in the court of appeals shall be entered on the docket in the order in which they are commenced, received, or filed. They shall be taken up and disposed of in the same order, unless for good cause shown the court otherwise directs. The court may dispose of the following cases in advance of their assignment or order on the docket: (A) Proceedings in quo warranto, mandamus, habeas corpus, prohibition, or procede...

...If a judge of the court of appeals allegedly is interested in a proceeding pending before the court in a county of the judge's district, allegedly is related to or has a bias or prejudice for or against a party to a proceeding pending before the court or a party's counsel, allegedly presided in the lower court in the same proceeding, or allegedly otherwise is disqualified to preside in a proceeding pending before the...

...(A) In the event of a natural or man-made disaster, civil disorder, or any extraordinary circumstance that interrupts or threatens to interrupt the orderly operation of a court of appeals within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, the administrative judge of the court may issue an order authorizing the court to operate at a temporary location inside or outside the territorial jurisdiction of the court. The ord...

...Cases commenced in or taken to the supreme court shall be entered on the docket in the order in which they are commenced, received, or filed. They shall be disposed of in the same order, except that the court may dispose of the following classes of cases in advance of their order on the docket: (A) Proceedings in quo warranto, mandamus, procedendo, prohibition, or habeas corpus; (B) Cases in which the person seekin...

...(A) The hearing of an appeal taken in relation to a final order, adjudication, or decision covered by division (A) of section 2506.01 of the Revised Code shall proceed as in the trial of a civil action, but the court shall be confined to the transcript filed under section 2506.02 of the Revised Code unless it appears, on the face of that transcript or by affidavit filed by the appellant, that one of the following ...

...(A) The hearing of an appeal taken under section 2506.05 of the Revised Code shall proceed as in the trial of a civil action, but the court shall be confined to the transcript as filed under section 2506.06 of the Revised Code unless it appears on the face of that transcript or by affidavit filed by the appellant that one or more of the following applies: (1) The transcript does not contain a report of all evidence ...

...If a judge of a municipal or county court allegedly is interested in a proceeding pending before the judge, allegedly is related to or has a bias or prejudice for or against a party to a proceeding pending before the judge or to a party's counsel, or allegedly otherwise is disqualified to preside in a proceeding pending before the judge, any party to the proceeding or the party's counsel may file an affidavit o...

...Service may be made by publication in any of the following cases: (A) In an action for the recovery of real property or of an estate or interest in real property, when the defendant is not a resident of this state or his place of residence cannot be ascertained; (B) In an action for the partition of real property, when the defendant is not a resident of this state or his place of residence cannot be ascertained; (...

...A person guilty of any of the following acts may be punished as for a contempt: (A) Disobedience of, or resistance to, a lawful writ, process, order, rule, judgment, or command of a court or officer; (B) Misbehavior of an officer of the court in the performance of official duties, or in official transactions; (C) A failure to obey a subpoena duly served, or a refusal to be sworn or to answer as a witness, wh...

...(A) As used in this section, "Title IV-D case" has the same meaning as in section 3125.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Any party who has a legal claim to any support ordered for a child, spouse, or former spouse may initiate a contempt action for failure to pay the support. In Title IV-D cases, the contempt action for failure to pay support also may be initiated by an attorney retained by the party who has the...

...As used in sections 2710.01 to 2710.10 of the Revised Code: (A) "Mediation" means any process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute. (B) "Mediation communication" means a statement, whether oral, in a record, verbal or nonverbal, that occurs during a mediation or is made for purposes of considering, cond...

...(A) Before accepting a mediation, an individual who is requested to serve as a mediator shall do both of the following: (1) Make an inquiry that is reasonable under the circumstances to determine whether there are any known facts that a reasonable individual would consider likely to affect the impartiality of the mediator, including a financial or personal interest in the outcome of the mediation and an existing or ...

...(A) A provision in any written contract, except as provided in division (B) of this section, to settle by arbitration a controversy that subsequently arises out of the contract, or out of the refusal to perform the whole or any part of the contract, or any agreement in writing between two or more persons to submit to arbitration any controversy existing between them at the time of the agreement to submit, or arising ...

...To be valid and enforceable any arbitration agreements pursuant to sections 2711.01 and 2711.22 of the Revised Code for controversies involving a medical, dental, chiropractic, or optometric claim that is entered into prior to a patient receiving any care, diagnosis, or treatment shall include or be subject to the following conditions: (A) The agreement shall provide that the care, diagnosis, or treatment will be...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Arbitral award" means any decisions of the arbitral tribunal on the substance of the dispute submitted to it and includes an interim, interlocutory, or partial arbitral award. (B) "Arbitral tribunal" means a sole arbitrator or a panel of arbitrators. (C) "Arbitration" means any arbitration, whether or not administered by a permanent arbitral institution. (D) "Arbitration agreement" m...