Chapter Third: Execution of Documents and Written Undertakings

Article 847

1. Every creditor with a personal or in rem right arising from a contract or undertaking established by an official or ordinary document may request the execution of this document directly against the debtor through the competent Execution Department. 2. The official document eligible for execution is the original document or a true copy thereof. In the event of the loss of the true copy, the Judge of Urgent Matters shall rule on the request to issue a second executable copy after summoning the parties in person.

Article 848

An application for execution shall be submitted to the competent execution department in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 830.

Article 849

A copy of the execution request concerning a real right shall be communicated to the Land Registry Office through the auxiliary office for registration in the Land Registry. The copy may also be served...

Article 850

1. The Execution Department shall notify the party against whom execution is sought of the execution request and the document to be executed, and warn them to pay within a period of ten days or to submit their objection to the execution during this period before the competent court. If this period expires without an objection being submitted, the document becomes incontestable unless the right has been totally or partially extinguished. This final appeal does not suspend execution unless it is based on forgery. 2. If a claim of forgery of the document is made before the Criminal Courts, the President of the Execution Department shall decree the suspension of execution by a final decision until a ruling is made on this claim. However, if a claim of forgery is made before the Civil Court, this court shall rule on the request to suspend execution and notify the Execution Department of its decision to act accordingly. 3. The first paragraph of this article shall be included in the notification document, under penalty of nullity of this notification.

Article 851

Article 851 - The party against whom execution is sought may object to the execution, within the ten-day period mentioned in the preceding article, by submitting a petition to the competent court in the jurisdiction where the Execution Division is seated...

Article 852

1. The court clerk shall forward a copy of the summons containing the objection to the execution to the execution department on the day it is submitted. The objection shall not suspend the execution of debt instruments, unless the court decides to suspend this execution or make it conditional on a guarantee if it appears that the objection is based on serious grounds. 2. If the subject of the execution is not a debt instrument, the objection thereto shall automatically suspend the execution until the Court of First Instance issues a judgment dismissing the objection. 3. In all cases, the objection or suspension of execution shall not preclude the taking of precautionary measures to preserve the right of the execution applicant. The judgment dismissing the objection to the execution or determining the right of the execution applicant in a specific manner shall be subject to immediate execution and shall be executed as is, unless the court decides to suspend its execution pending the submission of a guarantee to be determined by it. 4. The execution of debt instruments shall be subject to half of the relative fee applicable to the execution of judicial judgments and official documents. 5. The provisions of this amended article, as per this law, shall only apply to execution requests submitted after its entry into force, and requests submitted prior thereto shall remain subject to the legal provisions in effect on the date of their submission.

Article 853

If the judgment debtor does not object to the execution or explicitly declares that he does not object to it, he shall be exempted from the non-expedited portion of the judicial fees, and the execution shall be carried out without the judgment creditor paying this portion.

Article 854

If the objection only pertains to a part of the claimed right, the execution shall proceed with regard to the other part.

Article 855

Article 855 (as amended) - Both the party objecting to execution and his opponent, the executing creditor, must appear by counsel before the court unless the subject matter of the dispute is of a specific value not exceeding one million Lebanese pounds...

Article 856

1. Judgments in appealable execution objections are appealed within a period of ten days from the date of their issuance, provided that the parties are notified of this date, and without the need to submit a copy thereof.