fieri facias
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 38 U.S. 294 - John Van Ness v. Alpheus Hyatt · 1839Most cited · 23 citing opinions
legal title required
The principle of the common law undoubtedly is, that no property but that in which the debtor has a legal title is liable to be taken by this execution; and, accordingly, it is well settled in the English Courts, that an equitable interest is not liable to execution.
How often courts cite the cases defining “fieri facias”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “fieri facias” — 43 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1839–1867
The ordinary writ of fieri facias is the authority of the sheriff to levy on property and sell it