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...Property used, or kept to be used, by a municipal corporation or fire company for the purpose of extinguishing fire is exempt from execution or sale to satisfy any judgment or order arising upon contract or otherwise, but the owner thereof may create valid liens thereon by bill of sale or mortgage.

...nd in which the payment resulted from a civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee, as defined in section 2969.21 of the Revised Code, a payment, not to exceed twenty thousand two hundred dollars, on account of personal bodily injury, not including pain and suffering or compensation for actual pecuniary loss, of the person or an individual for whom the person is a dependent; (d) A payment in comp...

...(A) Division (A)(1) of section 2329.66 of the Revised Code does not: (1) Extend to a judgment rendered on a mortgage executed, or security interest given on real or personal property by a debtor or to a claim for less than four hundred dollars for manual work or labor; (2) Impair the lien, by mortgage or otherwise, of the vendor for the purchase money of real or personal property that the debtor or a depende...

...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).

...The exempt personal earnings provided for in division (A)(13) of section 2329.66 of the Revised Code are not subject to the payment of the cost of any proceedings brought to recover a judgment for a debt or to satisfy a judgment for a debt.

...When it is necessary to ascertain the amount or value of personal property exempt under sections 2329.63 to 2329.71 of the Revised Code, it shall be estimated and appraised by two disinterested householders of the county, who shall be selected by the officer holding the execution and sworn by the officer to impartially make the appraisement.

...ith respect to exemptions, apply to all courts in this state, and a person is entitled to all applicable exemptions in any case or proceeding before any court or officer.

... by this section in accordance with the rules established by the county court or municipal court. The privileges conferred by this section that exempt that debtor's personal earnings from proceedings in garnishment, attachment, or aid of execution or any other action or proceeding to subject the personal earnings of that debtor to the payment of claims or judgments shall terminate upon that neglect. If a trusteeship...

... debtor, filed with and approved by the court in which the application for trusteeship is filed. If the holder of a chattel mortgage elects to participate in the trusteeship, he shall be estopped to assert his lien or other encumbrance so long as the debtor complies with the terms of such agreement and with section 2329.70 of the Revised Code. Upon the failure of the debtor to maintain such agreement, the creditor m...

...Sections 2327.01 and 2327.02 and Chapters 2329. and 2331. of the Revised Code do not impair the right of contingent or vested dower, the right to remain in the mansion house set forth in section 2106.15 of the Revised Code, or the mode provided by law for enforcing those rights.

...ue of a writ of execution issued from a court of record in this state, an officer levies it on goods and chattels claimed by a person other than the defendant, such officer shall give written notice to a judge of the court of common pleas, municipal court, or county court, whichever court has jurisdiction. The notice shall contain the names of the plaintiff, defendant, and claimant, and at the same time furnish the j...

...84 of the Revised Code the judge of the court of common pleas, municipal court, or county court finds that the right to the goods and chattels, in whole or part, is in the claimant, the judge also shall find the value of the goods and chattels. The judge shall render judgment on such finding for the claimant that the claimant recover the claimant's costs against the plaintiff in execution or other party for whose ben...

...If the judge at the hearing under section 2329.84 of the Revised Code finds that the right to the property or a part of it is in the claimant, and the plaintiff in execution within three days after the hearing tenders to the officer having the property in the officer's custody, a bond in double the amount of its value as assessed by the judge, with good and sufficient sureties, payable to the claimant, to the effect ...

...As used in sections 2329.90 to 2329.94 of the Revised Code: (A) "Foreign country" means a governmental unit other than the United States and other than a state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States. (B) "Foreign country judgment" means any judgment of a foreign country that grants or denies the recovery of a sum of money, other than the following types of judgments: (1) A j...

...does not provide impartial tribunals or procedures that are compatible with the requirements of the due process of law; (2) Subject to divisions (C) and (D) of this section, the foreign court did not have personal jurisdiction over the defendant; (3) The foreign court did not have jurisdiction over the subject matter. (C) A foreign country judgment shall be considered conclusive, and shall not be refused recogniti...

...political subdivisions in its statutes, rules, or common law that is substantially similar to sections 2329.90 to 2329.94 of the Revised Code may be recognized and enforced pursuant to section 2329.91 of the Revised Code in the discretion of the court.

...A court of this state may stay proceedings under sections 2329.90 to 2329.94 of the Revised Code to recognize and enforce a foreign country judgment if the defendant satisfies the court that an appeal is pending or that he is entitled and intends to appeal the foreign country judgment. The stay may be granted only until the appeal has been determined or until the expiration of a time period sufficient to enable the d...

...9.94 of the Revised Code do not prevent courts from recognizing judgments in situations not covered by those sections. (B) Sections 2329.90 to 2329.94 of the Revised Code shall be construed so as to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the laws of the states that enact similar provisions.

...An execution against the person of a judgment debtor shall require the officer to arrest such debtor and commit him to the jail of the county until he pays the judgment, or is discharged according to law.

...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 company, which he fraudulently conceals with like intent; (C) When the judgment debtor has assigned or disposed of any of his property or rights in action, or has converted them ...

...issued only when allowed by the supreme court, court of appeals, court of common pleas, probate court, or any judge of such courts, upon being satisfied, by the affidavit of the judgment creditor or his attorney, and such other evidence as is presented, of the existence of one or more of the particulars mentioned in section 2331.02 of the Revised Code.

...A judge of a county court may issue an execution against the person of a judgment debtor, upon being satisfied of the existence of one or more of the particulars mentioned in section 2331.02 of the Revised Code, by affidavit and evidence as required in section 2331.03 of the Revised Code.

...When the judgment debtor was arrested before judgment and has not been released from imprisonment by an application for relief as an insolvent debtor, and the order for such arrest has not been adjudged improper, an execution against the person of such judgment debtor may issue as a matter of course.

...r who serves the writ, if issued from a court of record, real or personal property, or if issued by a judge of a county court, personal property only, sufficient to satisfy the judgment and costs for which the writ was issued.

...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...