ARANSAS COUNTY

District & County Court at Law Fees:

Notices:

Fees

Subpoenas

125.00

Summons

125.00

Citations

125.00

Writ of Attachment

200.00

Writ of Garnishment

200.00

Writ of Sequestration

200.00

Orders of Sale

200.00

Writ of Possession

200.00

Writ of Execution

200.00

All other Writs not specified

200.00

Forcible Detainer

75.00

Mental Commitment

125.00

Temporary Restraining Order

75.00

Temporary Protective Order

75.00

(not to be charged to applicant — to be paid as court cost upon order of the Court)

Service Fees:

Small Claims Citation

60.00

Justice Court Citation

60.00

All Other Courts’ Citations Justice Court Fees

100.00

Notices:

Subpoenas

60.00

Summons

60.00

Citation

60.00

Forcible Detainer

60.00

Writ of Execution

125.00

Writ of Possession

125.00

Writ of Reentry

125.00

Writ of Sequestration

125.00

All other Writs not specified Service Fees:

125.00

Small Claims Citation

60.00

Justice Court Citation

60.00

Other Service Fees: 100.00

Posting Written Notices Executing Deed Under

60.00

Order of Sale or Writ Executing Bill of Sale Under

60.00

Order of Sale or Writ

60.00

Copies of accident reports

4.00

(Sheriffs Office) Request for Criminal History

4.00

Sheriffs commission on an Execution of Order of Sale for County Court at Law & District Courts:

1st $10,000, a fee of 10 percent; an additional 5 percent of the next $15,000; an additional 2.5 percent of

amounts more than $25,000.

When money is collected by the Sheriff without a sale, half of the above commission shall be allowed.

Address: Sheriff, 301 North Live Oak Street, Rockport, Texas 78382. County Clerk, phone

361-790-0122.

PROCESS - Any court document carrying the court seal or clerk's signature, that must be properly served on (that is, given to) the party or witness named in the document, is called a process document or process. A subpoena--a document requiring the appearance of a person or the production of documents at a hearing--and a summons are examples of court process. Rules as to who can serve process and how it must be done vary. Some states allow only sheriffs, marshals and constables to serve process. Other states also authorize registered process servers (often private investigators), and a few states allow service by anyone 18 or over who is not a party to the case.

So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer.

In the English law, process in civil causes is called original process, when it is founded upon the original writ; and also to distinguish it from mesne or intermediate process, wliich issues pending the suit, upon some collateral interlocutory matter, as, to summon juries, witnesses,, and the like; mesne process is also sometimes put in contradistinction to final process, or process of execution; and then it signifies all process which intervenes between the beginning and end of a suit.

In criminal cases that proceeding which is called a warrant, before the finding of the bill, is termed process when issued after the indictment has been found by the jury.

The word process in the 12th section of the 5th article of the constitution of Pennsylvania, which provides that "the style of all process shall be The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," was intended to refer to such writs only as should become necessary to be issued in the course of the exercise of that judicial power which is established and provided for in the article of the constitution, and forms exclusively the subject matter of it.

PROCESS, MESNE - By this term is generally understood any writ issued in the course of a suit between the original process and execution.

By this term is also meant the writ or proceedings in an action to summon or bring the defendant into court, or compel him to appear or put in bail, and then to hear and answer the plaintiffs claim.