Wis. Stat. § 19.05
This is the official text of Wis. Stat. § 19.05, part of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Statutes — the complete compiled statutory law of Wisconsin, organized into numbered chapters by subject.
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Execution; lien of judgment.
Official statutory text
(1) Whenever a judgment is rendered against any officer and the officer’s sureties on the officer’s official bond in any court other than the circuit court of the county in which the officer’s official bond is filed, no execution for the collection of the judgment shall issue from the other court unless the plaintiff, the plaintiff’s agent or the plaintiff’s attorney shall make and file with the court an affidavit showing each of the following:
(a) That no other judgment has been rendered in any court in an action upon the officer’s bond against the sureties of the bond that remains in whole or in part unpaid.
(b) That no other action upon the officer’s bond against the sureties was pending and undetermined in any other court at the time of the entry of the judgment.
(2) A transcript of a judgment described in sub. (1) may be entered in the judgment and lien docket in other counties, shall constitute a lien, and may be enforced, in all respects the same as if it were an ordinary judgment, for the recovery of money, except as provided otherwise in sub. (1) .
History: 1991 a. 316 ; 1995 a. 224 .
(a) That no other judgment has been rendered in any court in an action upon the officer’s bond against the sureties of the bond that remains in whole or in part unpaid.
(b) That no other action upon the officer’s bond against the sureties was pending and undetermined in any other court at the time of the entry of the judgment.
(2) A transcript of a judgment described in sub. (1) may be entered in the judgment and lien docket in other counties, shall constitute a lien, and may be enforced, in all respects the same as if it were an ordinary judgment, for the recovery of money, except as provided otherwise in sub. (1) .
History: 1991 a. 316 ; 1995 a. 224 .
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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