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Rule 622. Executions
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An execution is a process of the court from which it is issued. The clerk of the district or county court or the justice of the peace, as the case may be, shall tax the costs in every case in which a final judgment has been rendered and shall issue execution to enforce such judgment and collect such costs. The execution and subsequent executions shall not be addressed to a particular county, but shall be addressed to "The Sheriff or any Constable of any County within the State of Texas."
Source: Arts. 2446, 2447, 3770, 3780, 3781 and 3782.
Change: The execution is made a state wide process and is not required to be directed to a specific county.
For context only: Art. 3775. On Death of Plaintiff. Where a sole plaintiff, or one of several plaintiffs, shall die after judgment, execution shall issue on such judgment in the name of the legal representative of such deceased sole plaintiff, or in the name of the surviving plaintiffs and the legal representative of the deceased plaintiff, as the case may require, upon an affidavit of such death being filed with the clerk, together with the certificate of the appointment of such representative under the hand and seal of the clerk of the court wherein such appointment was made; provided that if there be no administration upon the estate of such deceased sole plaintiff or plaintiffs, and none necessary as shown by an affidavit filed with the clerk of the court in which judgment was obtained, execution shall issue in the name of all the plaintiffs, both living and deceased, as shown in the judgment, and all money or moneys collected thereunder by the officer levying such execution, and paid unto the registry of the court, out of which such execution issued shall be partitioned among and paid to parties entitled to the same, and in the proportions to which they are entitled to the same under proper order of the presiding judge of said court.
Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.
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