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Priority of executions issuing out of the Supreme Court and the district court

Cap. 97, s. 49 · Revised Edition 2020

When a writ against the goods of a party has issued out of the Supreme Court, and a writ against the goods of the same party has issued out of a district court, the right to the goods seized shall be determined by the priority of the time of the delivery of the writ to the Registrar to be executed, or of the application to the clerk for the issue of the writ to be executed, and the Registrar shall, on demand in writing signed by him, inform the bailiff of the precise time of such delivery of the writ, and the bailiff shall, on demand, show his writ to the Registrar or his deputy, and such writing purporting to be signed, and the endorsement on the writ, shall respectively be sufficient justification to the bailiff or Registrar or his deputy acting thereon.
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Priority of executions issuing out of the Supreme Court and the district court — Cap. 97 s. 49 · Belize Law