426.1 20 Defendant's estate bound by execution from receipt by officer -- Time received to be noted -- Priority -- Apportionment. (1) An execution against property shall bind the estate of the defendant only from the time of its delivery to the proper officer to execute. The officer to whom the execution is delivered shall, on receipt of it, endorse thereon the day, month, year and time of day of its receipt by him. (2) If two or more executions are delivered to the officer on the same day against the same per son, he shall satisfy that one first which first comes into his hands. (3) If two or more executions come to an officer's hands at the same time and he is unable to make the amounts thereof, he shall apportion the sum made among the several executions so coming to his hands according to their amounts. Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1660, 4571.
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