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The DC Code: 15 Judgments and Executions; Fees and Costs
15-101: Enforceable period of judgments; expiration.
15-102: Lien of judgment, decree, or forfeited recognizance.
15-103: Effect of revival.
15-104: Priority of liens.
15-105: Decree confirming sale of property; effect; ordering conveyance.
15-106: Judgment and damages assessed in actions on bonds or penal sums.
15-107: Setting off judgments.
15-108: Interest on judgment for liquidated debt.
15-109: Interest on judgment for damages in contract or tort.
15-110: Interest on judgment on contracts made elsewhere.
15-111: Counsel fee in proceeding on bond or undertaking.
15-301: Definition and applicability.
15-302: Period during which writ of execution may issue; returnable period.
15-303: Alias writs.
15-304: Return of writ.
15-305: Issuance of writ after expiration of period.
15-306: Election to move for new judgment in lieu of execution.
15-307: Lien of execution.
15-308: Endorsement, by marshal, of date of receipt of writ.
15-309: Death of judgment debtor after delivery of execution.
15-310: Lien of execution on Court of General Sessions judgment; levy. [Repealed]
15-311: Property subject to levy.
15-312: Levy on money and evidences of debt.
15-313: Levy on equitable interest in chattels pledged.
15-314: Appraisement; notice of sale.
15-315: Death, removal, or disqualification of marshal.
15-316: Subrogation of purchaser after defective sale; no refund.
15-317: Remedy of marshal for erroneous sale made in good faith.
15-318: Remedies of purchaser upon refusal to deliver possession.
15-319: Execution of final decree after death; other appropriate proceedings.
15-320: Enforcement of decrees.
15-321: Enforcement of interlocutory decrees.
15-322: Enforcement of decrees for delivery of chattels.
15-323: Limitation on seizure of real property.
15-351: Definitions.
15-352: Filing and status of foreign judgments.
15-353: Notice of filing.
15-354: Stay.
15-355: Fees.
15-356: Optional procedure.
15-357: Uniformity of interpretation.
15-361: Short title.
15-362: Definitions.
15-363: Applicability.
15-364: Standards for recognition of foreign-country judgment.
15-365: Personal jurisdiction.
15-366: Procedure for recognition of foreign-country judgment.
15-367: Effect of recognition of foreign-country judgment.
15-368: Stay of proceedings pending appeal of foreign-country judgment.
15-369: Statute of limitations.
15-370: Uniformity of interpretation.
15-371: Saving clause.
15-381: Definitions. [Repealed]
15-382: Recognition and enforcement. [Repealed]
15-383: Grounds for nonrecognition. [Repealed]
15-384: Personal jurisdiction. [Repealed]
15-385: Stay in cases of appeal. [Repealed]
15-386: Savings clause. [Repealed]
15-387: Applicability. [Repealed]
15-388: Uniformity of application and construction. [Repealed]
15-501: Exempt property of householder; property in transitu; debt for wages.
15-502: Mortgage or other instrument affecting exempt property.
15-503: Earnings and other income; wearing apparel and tools of certain persons.
15-521: Notice of claim or exemption; trial.
15-522: Docketing of claim; manner of trial.
15-523: Judgment.
15-524: Replevin against officer.
15-701: Compensation taxed as costs; attorneys' compensation from clients.
15-702: Attorney fees taxed as costs.
15-703: Security for costs by nonresidents.
15-704: Advance payment of costs and fees.
15-705: Exemption of District of Columbia and United States from fees, costs, and bonds.
15-706: Clerk's fees in United States District Court for the District of Columbia. [Repealed]
15-707: Probate fees.
15-708: Deposit for probate fees.
15-709: Fees and costs in Superior Court.
15-710: Fees and costs in Domestic Relations Branch of Court of General Sessions. [Repealed]
15-711: Deposit or security for costs in Superior Court.
15-712: Proceedings in Forma Pauperis.
15-713: Deposits for jury trials in Superior Court.
15-714: Witness fees for attendance in Superior Court.
15-715: Witness fees in prosecutions for cruelty to children or animals.
15-716: Advances to Court of General Sessions Clerk for witness fees. [Repealed]
15-717: Marriage license and related fees.
15-718: Juror fees.
15-719: Adoption court costs and fees.
15-901: Definitions.
15-902: Variation by agreement.
15-903: Determining money of the claim.
15-904: Determining amount of the money of certain contract claims.
15-905: Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim.
15-906: Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims; times of money conversion; form of judgment.
15-907: Conversions of foreign money in distribution proceeding.
15-908: Prejudgment and judgment interest.
15-909: Enforcement of foreign judgments.
15-910: Determining United States dollar value of foreign-money claims for limited purposes.
15-911: Effect of currency revalorization.
15-912: Supplementary general principles of law.
15-913: Applicability.
15-914: Uniformity of application and construction.