L'huissier de justice et l'exécution des jugements par voie de contrainte. Une reconstruction empirique de la pyramide d'exécution en Flandre

In: Droit et société: revue internationale de théorie du droit et de sociologie juridique, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 413-423

Abstract

The Bailiff and the Compulsory Enforcement of Rulings in Civil Matters : An Empirical Reconstruction of the « Pyramid of Enforcement » in Flanders.
The compulsory enforcement of civil rulings follows a distinct number of successive steps stipulated by the Judicial Code and is meant to increase the pressure on the debtor. For this study, 23 bailiffs provided us with 276 cases of compulsory enforcement. The resulting « pyramid of enforcement » offers a quantitative assessment of the flow and fall-out of cases throughout the process of compulsory enforcement. Furthermore, the configurations of the parties involved reveal different modes of enforcement.