11-5-103 - Report of sale of land.
§ 11-5-103. Report of sale of land.
And when the sale has been completed, the person making the same shall make report thereof in writing to the court, stating the time and place of sale, the name of the purchaser, and the amount of purchase money, and shall satisfy the court that the directions prescribed in the decree of sale and the law have been followed; and thereupon the court shall proceed to make a decree confirming the sale, unless good reason be shown to the contrary. And the court shall order the person who made the sale to make a conveyance to the purchaser of the land so sold; but if the sale be not reported to the following term, the court may compel the making of a proper report at a subsequent term, and may then confirm or set aside the same; and the person failing to make such report in proper time may be fined, as for a contempt, not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Sources: Codes, 1871, § 1151; 1880, § 2050; 1892, § 605; 1906, § 655; Hemingway's 1917, § 417; 1930, § 462; 1942, § 1382.