Maine § 2020. - Judgment assignee may bring action if estate does not pass by levy

Full text of Maine Maine Revised Statutes § 2020. — Judgment assignee may bring action if estate does not pass by levy, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 2020.. Judgment assignee may bring action if estate does not pass by levy

When a judgment has been assigned for a valuable consideration, and bona fide, in writing, and a levy of an execution issued on such judgment has been made, and the estate does not pass by the levy, and the creditor dies after the levy, the assignee may bring an action in the court issuing the execution, setting forth the facts aforesaid therein, and requiring the debtor to show cause why another execution should not issue on the same judgment, in the name and for the benefit of said assignee. If the debtor, after being duly summoned, does not show sufficient cause why it should not be done, the levy may be set aside; and the court from which said execution issued may order and issue another execution on the same judgment, for the amount of the original debt, interest and costs, in the name and for the benefit of such plaintiff, and against such debtor and his property, in the usual form, with necessary charges.  

Source: official Maine text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 2020. ("Judgment assignee may bring action if estate does not pass by levy") is part of the Maine Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Maine. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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