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... (A) When the public notice required by division (A)(2) of section 2329.26 of the Revised Code is made in a newspaper published weekly, it is sufficient to insert it for three consecutive weeks. If both a daily and weekly edition of the paper are published and the circulation of the daily in the county exceeds that of the weekly in the county, or if the lands and tenements taken in execution are situated in a city, b...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, the purchaser of lands and tenements taken in execution shall submit to the officer who makes the sale the following information: (a)(i) If the purchaser is an individual, the information shall include the individual's name, mailing address, which shall not be a post office box, electronic mail address, telephone number, and financial transaction device information ...

...(A) The officer who will make the sale of lands and tenements that are delinquent vacant tenements or premises or abandoned tenements or premises may hold an open house of the delinquent vacant tenements or premises or abandoned tenements or premises to allow any person to view the delinquent vacant tenements or premises or abandoned tenements or premises prior to the sale. The officer may include a notice ...

... The levying officer shall indorse on the writ of execution the officer's proceedings thereon, and the clerk of the court of common pleas, upon the return thereof, immediately shall record all such indorsements at length, in the execution docket, or other docket provided for that purpose. Electronic indorsements shall be deemed valid. That record shall be a part of the record of the court of common pleas.

...If the sheriff collects any part of a judgment by virtue of an execution without the sale of real estate, he shall pay it to the judgment creditor, or his attorney, upon demand made therefor at the sheriff's office. If the execution is fully satisfied, the sheriff shall return it within three days after he collected the money thereon.

...The court from which an execution or order of sale issues, upon notice and motion of the officer who makes the sale or of an interested party, may punish any purchaser of lands and tenements who fails to pay within thirty days of the confirmation of the sale the balance due on the purchase price of the lands and tenements by forfeiting the sale of the lands and tenements and returning any deposit paid in connection w...

...(A) Upon the return of any writ of execution for the satisfaction of which lands and tenements have been sold, on careful examination of the proceedings of the officer making the sale, if the court of common pleas finds that the sale was made, in all respects, in conformity with sections 2329.01 to 2329.61 of the Revised Code, it shall, within thirty days of the return of the writ, direct the clerk of the court of co...

...(A) In sales of residential properties taken in execution or order of sale that are sold at an auction with the minimum bid pursuant to division (B) of section 2329.52 of the Revised Code, the judgment creditor and the first lienholder each have the right to redeem the property within fourteen days after the sale by paying the purchase price. The redeeming party shall pay the purchase price to the clerk of the court ...

...(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.

...Except as provided in division (C) of section 2308.03 or any other section of the Revised Code, in sales of real estate on execution or order of sale, at any time before the confirmation thereof, the debtor may redeem it from sale by depositing in the hands of the clerk of the court of common pleas to which such execution or order is returnable, the amount of the judgment or decree upon which such lands were sold, wi...

...Real property may be conveyed by a master commissioner or special master only: (A) When, by an order or a judgment in an action or proceeding, a party is required to convey such property to another, and the party neglects or refuses to do so, and the master is directed to convey on the party's failure; (B) When specific real property is sold by a master under an order or judgment of the court appointing the master....

...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...

...(A) The attorney who files the writ of execution shall, not later than seven days after the filing of the order of confirmation of sale pursuant to section 2329.31 of the Revised Code, make to the purchaser a deed, containing the names of the parties to the judgment, the names of the owners of the property sold, a reference to the volume and page of the recording of the next preceding recorded instrume...

...The deed provided for in section 2329.36 of the Revised Code shall be prima facie evidence of the legality and regularity of the sale. All the estate and interest of the person whose property the officer so professed to sell and convey, whether it existed at the time the property became liable to satisfy the judgment, or was acquired afterward, shall be vested in the purchaser by such sale.

...The officer who makes a levy, or holds an order of sale, before giving notice of the sale, may demand of the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, the fees of the printer for publishing such notice. The officer need not make such publication until the fees are paid.

...Except as provided in sections 2329.152 and 2329.153 of the Revised Code, sale of lands or tenements under execution or order of sale must be held in the county in which they are situated and at the courthouse, unless otherwise ordered by the court. Purchase of real or personal property, by the officer making the sale thereof, or by an appraiser of such property, shall be fraudulent and void.

...If lands and tenements levied on, or ordered to be sold, are not sold upon execution, other executions may be issued to sell them.

...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 two or more executions entitled to no preference as to each other are put in the hands of the same officer, when required, he must levy them on separate parcels of the real property of the judgment debtor if, in the opinion of the appraisers, they can be divided without material injury. If the real property of such debtor is not sufficient, at two thirds of its appraised value, to satisfy all the executions charg...

...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...

... (A) On a sale made pursuant to this chapter, if the officer who makes the sale receives from the sale more money than is necessary to satisfy the writ of execution, with interest and costs, the officer who made the sale shall deliver any balance remaining after satisfying the writ of execution, with interest and costs, to the clerk of the court that issued the writ of execution not later than forty-five days after c...

...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...

...Upon the sale of property on execution, if the title of the purchaser is invalid by reason of a defect in the proceedings, he may be subrogated to the right of the creditor against the debtor to the extent of the money paid and applied to the debtor's benefit, and, to the same extent, may have a lien on the property sold, as against all persons, except bona fide purchasers without notice. This section does not requir...

...When a plaintiff in execution or his agent , in good faith, has ordered a levy of execution upon property not subject thereto, and which has been sold, applied on his judgment, and a recovery therefor had against him by the owner of the property, such plaintiff, having paid the amount so recovered, on motion in the court having control of the judgment, on giving the judgment defendant notice thereof, may have the sat...