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The South African Sheriff's Guide: Practice and Procedure (Loose-leaf)

The South African Sheriff's Guide: Practice and Procedure (Loose-leaf)

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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
  • Table of cases
  • Table of statutes
  • Index

Of Interest and Benefit to:

  • Sheriffs
  • Legal professionals
  • Researchers
  • The general public

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