Maine § 14 §2023 Validity of excess levy; remedy

Maine Statutes

§ 14 §2023 — Validity of excess levy; remedy

Maine § 14 §2023

Title 14COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL

Part 4PROCEEDING AFTER VERDICT OR JUDGMENT

Ch. 403TITLE TO REAL ESTATE BY LEVY OF EXECUTION

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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 14 §2023 (2026).

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When, by an error of the officer, the amount for which the levy was made exceeds the amount of debt or damage, costs, interest and costs of levy, by a sum not greater than 1% thereof, it is valid if otherwise legally made. The debtor or owner of the estate may maintain a civil action against such officer or his principal to recover all damages occasioned thereby, or a civil action against the creditor to have such error corrected, and the court may correct it, in any just and equitable manner, or it may decree a pecuniary compensation for the injury.

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When, by an error of the officer, the amount for which the levy was made exceeds the amount of debt or damage, costs, interest and costs of levy, by a sum not greater than 1% thereof, it is valid if otherwise legally made. The debtor or owner of the estate may maintain a civil action against such officer or his principal to recover all damages occasioned thereby, or a civil action against the creditor to have such error corrected, and the court may correct it, in any just and equitable manner, or it may decree a pecuniary compensation for the injury.