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     25-13-713. Procedure when sale invalidated, revival of judgment. (1) If the purchaser of real property sold on execution or his successor in interest be evicted therefrom in consequence of irregularities in the proceedings concerning the sale or of the reversal or discharge of the judgment, he may recover the price paid, with interest, from the judgment creditor.
     (2) If the purchaser of property at sheriff's sale or his successor in interest fail to recover possession in consequence of irregularity in the proceedings concerning the sale or because the property sold was not subject to execution and sale, the court having jurisdiction thereof shall, on petition of such party in interest or his attorney, revive the original judgment for the amount paid by such purchaser at the sale, with interest thereon from the time of payment at the same rate that the original judgment bore. When so revived, the said judgment shall have the same effect as an original judgment of the said court of that date, bearing interest as aforesaid; and any other or after-acquired property, rents, issues, or profits of the said debtor shall be liable to levy and sale under execution in satisfaction of such debt, but no property of such debtor sold bona fide before the filing of such petition shall be subject to the lien of said judgment. The notice of the filing of such petition shall be made by filing a notice thereof in the office of the county clerk where such property may be situated, and said judgment shall be revived in the name of the original plaintiff or plaintiffs for the use of said petitioner, the party in interest.

     History: En. Sec. 237, p. 183, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 286, p. 89, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 336, p. 132, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 336, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 347, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 1241, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6844, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9450, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 708; re-en. Sec. 9450, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-5842.

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