§ 680.270.Money Judgment

A single judgment can require several different things at once -- pay a sum of money, return a piece of property, stop doing something. This section isolates just the payment piece and gives it its own name: money judgment. That narrower category is what most of the familiar collection machinery in the Enforcement of Judgments Law targets: writs of execution, bank levies, wage garnishment, and judgment liens generally enforce money judgments specifically.

Section 681.010 shows why this distinction earns its own definition. It routes money judgments to the enforcement scheme in Division 2 (commencing with § 695.010), while sending judgments for possession of property, sale of property, or performance of an act to entirely separate chapters built around those different kinds of relief.