§ 25-1517.Several writs of execution; preference.

Section 25-1517 answers a question that comes up whenever more than one creditor is chasing the same debtor: who gets paid first when the officer cannot satisfy every execution in hand? If two or more writs against the same debtor are delivered to the officer on the same day, no preference is given to any of them. If the money collected is not enough to cover all of them, it gets distributed to the creditors in proportion to the amount of their respective demands, so each shares according to the size of their claim.

Different days produce a different rule. In every other case, the writ delivered first to the officer gets satisfied first. That makes the exact moment of delivery critical, which is why the section requires the officer to endorse on every writ the time it was received — that endorsement is the record that settles priority disputes.

The section closes with a savings clause: none of this changes any preferable lien one or more of the underlying judgments may already have on the debtor’s land, a reminder that the real estate lien rules in Section 25-1504 operate independently of the delivery-order priority this section establishes for execution proceeds generally.