Opinion ID: 1656409
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Whether the choses in action are subject to the writ of execution issued by the circuit court clerk on the enrolled final judgments in favor of the bank.

Text: ¶ 20. Under Maranatha and the statutes cited therein, a chose in action is personal property subject to a writ of execution. [7] Id. The plaintiffs argue a trial is necessary to determine the value of their claims against the bank, and an execution before a trial circumvents their rights. Notably, the same proceeds argument was made, and rejected, in Maranatha. Id. at 1006. Additionally, the relevant statutes do not require valuation by trial. The Legislature could have excepted choses in action from execution, but it did not, and it is not our role to create such exceptions in an unambiguous statutory scheme. As with any other personal property, a chose in action's valuefor purposes of levy and executionis determined at a sheriff's execution sale. See id. at 1007; Miss.Code Ann. § 11-7-7 (chose in action may be sold in the same manner as other personal property); Miss.Code Ann § 13-3-161 (personal property may be sold under execution); Miss.Code Ann. § 13-3-135 (a chose in action may be sold under execution); Miss.Code Ann. § 13-3-169 (property sold at an execution sale must go to the highest bidder).