Issuing documents: e.g. notices to appear in court (summonses).

Enforcing judgments: e.g. compelling a debtor to settle a debt as ordered by the courts.

Precautionary attachments, i.e. freezing a person’s assets until the court has delivered a decision on the merits of the dispute.

Compiling reports on (voluntary or judicial) sales by auction in an auction house or within the framework of bankruptcies.

Serving documents: e.g. presenting a person with a notice (summons) to appear in court or with a decision delivered by a judge (service).

Drawing up documents: e.g. protesting an unpaid bill of exchange or cheque.

Engaging in out-of-court debt settlement by issuing a debtor with formal notice.

Garnishments: e.g. seizing a portion of the salary of a borrower who fails to abide by his terms of contract.

Supervising and reporting on or recording the results of competitions.

Summonses to take cognizance of the articles and conditions of sale, of a higher bid, serving certified true copies, summonses to proceed with the ranking operations...

Recording facts: e.g. compiling an inventory of furniture or merchandise, inspecting damage caused by water, observing the progress of construction work, recording facts that may be indicative of adultery (within the framework of divorce proceedings).

Acting as debt mediator, i.e. negotiating a payment plan between a debtor and all his creditors.

Dividing the proceeds of a court-ordered sale or a sum of money seized between all the known creditors of a debtor.

Acting as sequester or as temporary administrator by placing goods, at his responsibility, in a safe place until a judgment on the merits of the dispute has been delivered.