The South African Sheriffs’ Guide: Practice and Procedure is the definitive text on the work and methodology of the Sheriffs’ profession. Commissioned by the South African Board for Sheriffs, this loose-leaf title offers invaluable information to Sheriffs, legal professionals, researchers and members of the public.

Care has been taken with the layout and writing style to ensure that as a reference guide it is reader friendly and accessible.

Aside from discussions on law, the text binds the Sheriffs’ profession to constitutional values, good practices and ethics – principles that are critical to the South African Board for Sheriffs.

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• Generic job description and professional ethics
• The South African Board for Sheriffs
• The appointment of sheriffs
• Disciplinary measures against a sheriff
• The Fidelity Fund, Fidelity Fund certificates and levies to the board
• Court processes
• Service of process
  • General
  • Service in the High Court
  • Service in the magistrates’ courts

• Execution
  • Execution in the High Court
  • Miscellaneous aspects of the High Court procedure
  • Execution in the magistrates’ courts
  • Miscellaneous aspects of the magistrates’ courts procedure
  • The Consumer Protection Act and sales in execution

• Admiralty jurisdiction
  • Arrests in rem
  • Attachments in personam
  • The purpose behind arrests in rem and attachments in personam
  • The role of the fund following a judicial sale of maritime property

• Execution against the state
• Insolvency
• Small claims courts
• Costs
• Annexures
  • Annexure 1
    • Sheriffs Act 90 of 1986
    • State Liability Act 20 of 1957
    • Regulations
    • Forms in terms of legislation 
    • Code of conduct for sheriffs 
    • Description of an area of jurisdiction of a lower or superior court
  • Annexure 2
    • Returns of service
    • Service returns
    • Execution returns
    • Removal returns
    • Payments
    • Claims
    • Court orders
    • Releases/lapses/suspension
    • Non-service/execution returns
    • Stays/suspensions/unsuccessful services/unsuccessful executions
    • Technical defects
    • Execution against the State
  • Annexure 3
    
    • Miscellaneous forms
    • Forms emanating from magistrates’ courts procedure
    • Forms emanating from High Court procedure
    • Forms emanating from various legislation
    • Forms emanating from admiralty jurisdiction

• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• Index

• Sheriffs
• Legal professionals
• Researchers
• The general public