If the execution be for the delivery of the possession of real or personal property, it shall require the officer to deliver the same, particularly describing the property, to the party entitled thereto, and may, at the same time, require the officer to satisfy any costs or damages, recovered in the same judgment, out of the goods and chattels of the party against whom it was rendered; and, for the want of such goods and chattels, then out of the lands and tenements; and in this respect it shall be deemed an execution against the property.
§ 901.Execution For Delivery of Property
Chapter 13: Limitation of Actions · Not amended since adoption on record · Last verified August 3, 2026
In one sentenceSection 901 requires an execution for possession of property to describe it and direct the officer to deliver it to the party entitled to it, and lets the same writ order the officer to collect costs or damages out of the losing party's goods, then land.
Full Text of § 901
Amendment History
R.L. 1910, § 5214.
Plain-English Summary
Section 901 covers the execution that hands over property itself, rather than collecting money. When a judgment awards possession of real or personal property, the execution must particularly describe that property and direct the officer to deliver it to the party entitled to it.
The same writ can also do double duty: it may require the officer to satisfy any costs or damages recovered in that judgment, taking them first out of the losing party's goods and chattels, and only reaching lands and tenements if the goods aren't enough. For that piece, the writ is treated exactly like an ordinary execution against property.
Frequently Asked Questions
If I win a judgment for possession of my car or my land, what does the execution say?
It must particularly describe the property and direct the officer to deliver possession to the party entitled to it.
Can the same execution also collect the costs and damages I was awarded?
Yes. It may also require the officer to satisfy those costs or damages, taking them first from the losing party's goods and chattels, and reaching land only if the goods aren't enough.
Is that cost-and-damages piece treated differently from an ordinary money execution?
No. In that respect it's deemed an execution against the property, like any other.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes, enacted by the Oklahoma Legislature.
Last verified August 3, 2026.
· Official source
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