§ 9-13-5.Amendment of execution — To conform to judgment or time of return

A writ of fieri facias — the standard execution for collecting a money judgment out of a defendant’s property — can drift from its judgment through clerical slip or changed circumstances involving the return date. This section supplies a fix: the writ may be amended to bring it back into line with the judgment and with the time set for its return.

What makes the amendment power useful is the protection built around it. The statute states plainly that amending the writ this way does not affect its validity, and — just as important — does not cause a levy already made under the writ to fall or be invalidated. Without that protection, correcting a technical defect could unravel enforcement steps already taken; with it, the amendment repairs the writ without resetting the clock on work already done.

This section works alongside Code Section 9-13-6, which handles the related situation where the underlying judgment itself has been amended. Read together, the two sections give clerks and courts the tools to keep an execution aligned with its judgment at any stage, without treating every correction as a reason to start the levy process over.