{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1182","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-1182","heading":"Proceedings deemed actions - Judgment and enforcement -","body":"Trial and dismissal - Unmatured or unliquidated debts.\n\nThe proceedings against a garnishee shall be deemed an action by\n\nthe judgment creditor against garnishee and defendant, as parties\n\ndefendant, and all of the provisions for enforcing judgment shall be\n\napplicable thereto. No trial shall be had of the garnishee action\n\nuntil the judgment creditor shall have judgment in the principal\n\naction, and if the defendant have judgment, the garnishee action\n\nshall be dismissed with costs, unless the judgment creditor shall\n\nperfect an appeal according to law, in which event the garnishment\n\nproceeding shall be continued until the disposition of the appeal,\n\nand it shall not be necessary to appeal the garnishment proceedings,\n\nor make the garnishee a party to the appeal. The court shall render\n\nsuch judgment in all cases as shall be just to all of the parties\n\nand shall properly protect their respective interests, and may\n\nadjudge the recovery of any indebtedness, the conveyance, transfer,\n\nor delivery to the sheriff, or any officer appointed by the\n\njudgment, of any property disclosed or found to be liable to be\n\napplied to the judgment creditor's demand, or by the judgment pass\n\nthe title thereto; and may therein, or by its order when proper,\n\ndirect the manner of making sale and of disposing of the proceeds\n\nthereof, or of any money or other things paid over or delivered to\n\nthe clerk or officer. The judgment against a garnishee shall acquit\n\nand discharge from all demands by the defendant or the defendant's\n\nrepresentatives for all moneys, goods, effects, or credits paid,\n\ndelivered or accounted for by the garnishee by force of such\n\njudgment; provided, it shall be no defense to proceedings against a\n\ngarnishee that the debt owing by the garnishee to the defendant was\n\nunliquidated or was not due.\n\nR.L. 1910, § 4832. Amended by Laws 1913, c. 121, p. 232, § 1; Laws\n\n1965, c. 297, § 12; Laws 1995, c. 338, § 14, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b9d631c723c1b02f74af527ca6d3389b08f6b53fcd05d65d1189e115b3af8b69","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1181","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1183"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}