The South African Sheriff's Guide: Practice and Procedure (Loose-leaf)
The South African Sheriffs’ Guide: Practice and Procedure is the definitive text on the work and methodology of the Sheriffs’ profession. Commissioned by the South African Board for Sheriffs, this loose-leaf title offers invaluable information to Sheriffs, legal professionals, researchers and members of the public.
Care has been taken with the layout and writing style to ensure that as a reference guide it is reader friendly and accessible.
Aside from discussions on law, the text binds the Sheriffs’ profession to constitutional values, good practices and ethics – principles that are critical to the South African Board for Sheriffs.
Contents Include:
- Generic job description and professional ethics
- The South African Board for Sheriffs
- The appointment of sheriffs
- Disciplinary measures against a sheriff
- The Fidelity Fund, Fidelity Fund certificates and levies to the board
- Court processes
- Service of process
- General
- Service in the High Court
- Service in the magistrates’ courts
- Execution
- Execution in the High Court
- Miscellaneous aspects of the High Court procedure
- Execution in the magistrates’ courts
- Miscellaneous aspects of the magistrates’ courts procedure
- The Consumer Protection Act and sales in execution
- Admiralty jurisdiction
- Arrests in rem
- Attachments in personam
- The purpose behind arrests in rem and attachments in personam
- The role of the fund following a judicial sale of maritime property
- Execution against the state
- Insolvency
- Small claims courts
- Costs
- Annexures
- Annexure 1
- Sheriffs Act 90 of 1986
- State Liability Act 20 of 1957
- Regulations
- Forms in terms of legislation
- Code of conduct for sheriffs
- Description of an area of jurisdiction of a lower or superior court
- Annexure 2
- Returns of service
- Service returns
- Execution returns
- Removal returns
- Payments
- Claims
- Court orders
- Releases/lapses/suspension
- Non-service/execution returns
- Stays/suspensions/unsuccessful services/unsuccessful executions
- Technical defects
- Execution against the State
- Annexure 3
- Miscellaneous forms
- Forms emanating from magistrates’ courts procedure
- Forms emanating from High Court procedure
- Forms emanating from various legislation
- Forms emanating from admiralty jurisdiction
- Annexure 1
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Index
Of Interest and Benefit to:
- Sheriffs
- Legal professionals
- Researchers
- The general public
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