{"data":{"id":"us-me/14-m.r.s.-2023","jurisdiction":"us-me","citation":"14 M.R.S. §2023","heading":"Validity of excess levy; remedy","body":"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.","path":["TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL","PART 4: PROCEEDING AFTER VERDICT OR JUDGMENT","CHAPTER 401: APPEALS","SUBCHAPTER 2: LEVY BY APPRAISEMENT"],"source_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/14/title14sec2023.html","current_through":"October 1, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:12:27Z","sha256":"72338ce73f4b1a478718f964df556c37a9c420cdbd243e0292c4206b3e718a92","source_id":"us-me","stale":false,"prev":"us-me/14-m.r.s.-2022","next":"us-me/14-m.r.s.-2101"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}