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...A case in all its stages in the same court and upon every docket or book, and all papers filed or issued therein, shall bear the appearance docket number. The clerk of the court shall not place a case upon the trial docket in which nothing remains to be done except to execute an order for the sale of real or personal property and to distribute the proceeds as directed by the order. If it becomes necessary, the case m...

...(A) When the jury is sworn, unless for special reasons the court otherwise directs, the trial shall proceed in the following order except as provided in section 2315.02 of the Revised Code: (1) The plaintiff concisely shall state the plaintiff's claim, and briefly may state the plaintiff's evidence to sustain it. (2) The defendant briefly shall state the defendant's defense, and briefly may state the defendant'...

...If contributory fault is asserted as an affirmative defense to a tort claim, if it is determined that the plaintiff was contributorily at fault and that contributory fault was a direct and proximate cause of the injury, death, or loss to person or property that is the subject of the tort action, and if the plaintiff is entitled to recover compensatory damages pursuant to section 2315.33 of the Revised Code from more ...

...(A) As used in division (A) of section 2317.02 of the Revised Code: "Client" means a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other association that, directly or through any representative, consults an attorney for the purpose of retaining the attorney or securing legal service or advice from the attorney in the attorney's professional capacity, or consults an attorney employee for legal service or advice, and who...

...When a married woman sues or is sued, proceedings shall be had and judgment shall be rendered and enforced as if she were unmarried. Her property and estate is liable for a judgment against her, but she is entitled to the benefits of all applicable exemptions provided by statute.

...(A) An attorney who confesses judgment in a case, at the time of making such confession, must produce the warrant of attorney for making it to the court before which he makes the confession. Notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, if the maker or any of several makers resides within the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal court established under section 1901.01 of the Revised Code, or signed the warrant of...

...(A) In any civil action upon a medical, dental, optometric, or chiropractic claim, the defendant may introduce evidence of any amount payable as a benefit to the plaintiff as a result of the damages that result from an injury, death, or loss to person or property that is the subject of the claim, except if the source of collateral benefits has a mandatory self-effectuating federal right of subrogation, a contractual ...

...When it is admitted by the pleading, or on the examination of a party, that he has in his possession, or under his control, money or other thing capable of delivery, which is the subject of the litigation, and held by him as trustee for another party, or which belongs or is due to another party, the court may order it to be deposited in court or delivered to such party, with or without security, subject to its furth...

...A judgment of the supreme court for money shall bind the lands and tenements of the judgment debtor in any county from the time there is filed, docketed, and indexed, in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of such county, a certificate of such judgment, issued by the clerk of the supreme court or by the clerk of the court to which the mandate of the supreme court is directed or to which such judgment...

...(A) As used in this section: "Aid of execution" means an aid of execution under Chapter 2333. of the Revised Code, including the issuance of an order to a judgment debtor to appear for examination under section 2333.10 of the Revised Code. "Certificate of judgment" means a certificate issued by a clerk of courts in which the judgment was rendered, under the seal of the court, under section 2329.02 or 2329.04 of the...

...When a sheriff, coroner, or other officer, by virtue of an execution, levies upon goods and chattels which afterward remain upon his hands unsold for want of bidders, for the want of time to advertise and sell, or for other reasonable cause, for his own security, he may take of the defendant a bond with security in such sum as he deems sufficient, to the effect that the property shall be delivered to the officer hold...

...All sales of goods and chattels shall be at public auction unless the court from which an execution or order of sale issues, or a judge thereof in vacation, for good cause shown, on application of either party and due notice to the adverse party, makes an order directing the sheriff, or other officer holding the process, to sell them at private sale for cash, specifying the time, not beyond the return day of the proc...

...Sections 2329.19 to 2329.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not affect the sale of lands by the state. All lands, the property of individuals, indebted to the state for debt, taxes, or in any other manner shall be sold without valuation for the discharge of such debt or taxes.

...(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...

...The officer, on making the sale of property of a judgment debtor, may retain the purchase money in his hands until the court examines his proceedings, when he shall pay it to the person entitled thereto, under the order of the court.

...A master commissioner or special master who sells real property shall have the same power to administer oaths that is conferred upon sheriffs. A sheriff may act as a master commissioner. On notice, and for a reasonable compensation to be paid him by a master out of his fees, the sheriff shall attend and make sale for a master who, by reason of sickness, is unable to attend. Sales made by a master must conform to th...

...When two or more executions come to the hands of an officer, and it is necessary to levy on real estate to satisfy them, and either of the judgment creditors, or his assignee , requires him to make a separate levy to satisfy his executions, the officer shall obey the direction. The officer who makes the levy on behalf of the creditor whose execution, is entitled to a preference by sections 2329.01 to 2329.61, inclusi...

...If the term of service of the officer who makes a sale of lands and tenements expires, or if he dies, is absent, or otherwise unable to make a deed of conveyance of the property sold, on receiving a certificate from the court from which execution issued for such sale, signed by the clerk of such court, by order of the court, setting forth that sufficient proof has been made that the sale was fair and legal, on tender...

...If a judgment in satisfaction of which lands or tenements are sold is reversed on appeal, such reversal shall not defeat or affect the title of the purchaser. In such case restitution in an amount equal to the money for which such lands or tenements were sold, with interest from the day of sale, must be made by the judgment creditor. In ordering restitution, the court shall take into consideration all persons who los...

...The regalia, insignia of office, journals of proceedings, account books, and the private work belonging to a benevolent society in this state is exempt from seizure or sale to satisfy any judgment or decree rendered against such society.

...Pursuant to the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978," 92 Stat. 2549, 11 U.S.C.A. 522 (b)(1), this state specifically does not authorize debtors who are domiciled in this state to exempt the property specified in the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978," 92 Stat. 2549, 11 U.S.C.A. 522 (d).

...Any person upon whom a demand has been made in accordance with section 2716.02 of the Revised Code may apply to any judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court within this state in whose jurisdiction the person resides or, if the person is not a resident of this state, in whose jurisdiction the person's place of employment is located for the appointment of a trustee to receive that portion of the personal e...

...A person imprisoned under sections 2331.01 to 2331.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is entitled to prison bounds, as prescribed by sections 2331.15 and 2331.16 of the Revised Code. In case the person is out of jail in prison bounds, the judgment creditor, upon whose judgment he was imprisoned, is entitled to execution against the lands and tenements, and goods, and chattels of the debtor, and all other remedies pr...

...When a judgment debtor does not have sufficient personal or real property subject to levy on execution to satisfy the judgment, any equitable interest which he has in real estate as mortgagor, mortgagee, or otherwise, or any interest he has in a banking, turnpike, bridge, or other joint-stock company, or in a money contract, claim, or chose in action, due or to become due to him, or in a judgment or order, or money, ...

...The officer holding a writ of execution shall serve upon each garnishee named in the notice required by section 2333.02 of the Revised Code a copy of the execution and notice, and the person so served shall be bound to the plaintiff in execution from the date of such service for all the money, property, and credits of the defendant in his possession or under his control, or which may come into his possession or under...