Rule 99.15.Execution for Delivery--How Issued and Governed.

Winning a replevin judgment is one thing; getting the property in hand is another, and Rule 99.15 supplies the enforcement tool. An execution — a formal court order directed to the sheriff — can issue once the judgment establishes who is entitled to the property. The execution has to describe the property well enough for the sheriff to identify and locate it.

The execution goes to the sheriff of the county where the property sits, which makes practical sense: that sheriff is the one positioned to locate and take the property. The sheriff's job under the execution is plain — deliver the property to whichever party the judgment says is entitled to it, whether that is the original plaintiff or a defendant who prevailed and elected to take the property back instead of its value.

This rule closes the loop that starts with the affidavit in Rule 99.03 and runs through the judgment in Rule 99.12 and the election in Rule 99.13. Once a party has made a final election to receive the property, the execution is what puts it in that party's hands.