Ohio Code § 2329.54
Ohio Code § 2329.54. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 2329.54.
When judgment is rendered in a court of record in this state upon an instrument in
writing in which two or more persons are jointly or severally bound, and it appears
to the court, by parol or other testimony, that one or more of the persons so bound
signed it as surety or bail for his codefendant, the clerk of such court, in recording
the judgment thereon, must certify which of the defendants is principal debtor and
which is the surety or bail. Such clerk shall issue execution on such judgment, commanding the officer to levy
on the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements, of the principal debtor, or, for want
of sufficient property of his to make it, to levy on the goods, chattels, lands, and
tenements, of the surety or bail. The property, personal and real, of the principal debtor, within the jurisdiction
of the court, shall be exhausted before any of the property of the surety or bail
is taken in execution.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 2329.54
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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