Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 4.44.490 (2026)

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section WA-LEGapp.leg.wa.gov JustiaTitle on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Whenever, in the exercise of its authority, a court shall have ordered the deposit or delivery of money or other thing, and the order is disobeyed, the court, besides punishing the disobedience as for contempt, may make an order requiring the sheriff to take the money or thing, and deposit or deliver it, in conformity with the direction of the court.

[Code 1881 s 196; 1877 p 41 s 200; 1869 p 49 s 200; 1854 p 163 s 175; RRS s 746.]

Notes:

Rules of court: Cf. CR 67.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1980–1988 · leading case: Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Harris, 631 P.2d 423 (Wash. Ct. App. 1981).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Harris, 631 P.2d 423 (Wash. Ct. App. 1981). · cites it 2× “RCW 4.44.490 5 allows the court to treat as contempt *866 disobedience of an order for the deposit or delivery of money.”

Rainier Nat'l Bank v. McCracken, 615 P.2d 469 (Wash. Ct. App. 1980). “Other statutes make specific provision for the enforcement of such orders, RCW 4.44.490, and for custody of money so deposited, RCW 4.”

Graves v. Duerden, 754 P.2d 1027 (Wash. Ct. App. 1988). “3 The parties appear to agree that RCW 4.44.490 provides an alternate remedy.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.