§ 255-c. Uniform transcript and certificate act. 1. Every transcript
of a judgment hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of a court
of record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk, shall be
on paper eleven inches in width by eight-and-a-half inches in length. It
shall be substantially in the following form:
TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGMENT
JUDGMENT DEBTOR
Trade Last
Surname Given Name or Profession Known Address
________________________________________________________________________
AMOUNT OF JUDGMENT
JUDGMENT CREDITOR JUDGMENT RENDERED
Name Address Damages Court
County
Date
Hr. & Min.
Costs JUDGMENT
DOCKETED
Total Date
Hr. & Min.
________________________________________________________________________
REMARKS: DATE AND MANNER
ATTORNEY FOR JUDGMENT OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF
CREDITOR JUDGMENT
Name Address
EXECUTION SATISFIED
When Returned How and to
When Issued Unsatisfied When What Extent
________________________________________________________________________
This form is to be immediately followed by the following certification
with the appropriate words being chosen among those which appear in
brackets, except that in the event the person certifying the transcript
keeps no seal, the words "and affixed my official seal" shall be
omitted:
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF........ (seal)
I,.................(Clerk, Judge or Justice) of the (County of.......;
or......Court, County of........), hereby certify that the above is a
correct transcript from the docket of judgments in my office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and affixed my
official seal this......day of.............19........
Clerk, Judge or Justice).
Any change in the status of the judgment since the time of its
original entry on the docket of the person certifying the transcript
shall be indicated in the space provided for "REMARKS; DATE AND MANNER
OF CHANGE OF STATUS OF JUDGMENT" the same to include any assignment,
reversal, modification, discharge, and any other such disposition
affecting the judgment; satisfactions and reductions, to whatever extent
and in whatever fashion the same are affected, shall be indicated in the
space entitled "SATISFIED--WHEN, HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT."
2. Every certificate attesting to any execution on, or reduction or
full or partial satisfaction of, a judgment, or to any change in the
status of a judgment, hereafter given by any clerk, judge or justice of
a court of record or of a court not of record, or by any county clerk,
shall be of the same size and form as for a transcript of judgment as
described and illustrated under subdivision one of the section, except
that the words "Certificate of Disposition of Judgment" shall replace
the words "Transcript of Judgment" wherever the same may appear on
either side thereof, and excepting further that between the two
sentences constituting the certification there shall be an additional
sentence, to read: "And I further certify that the above judgment has
........ " The space provided shall be of sufficient length to contain
all data relevant to the matter for which the certificate is issued.
3. In the event that the space provided for any information which must
be contained in any such transcript or certificate be insufficient, the
same may be set forth on a separate paper or papers of the same size, to
be attached to said transcript or certificate by a staple or other
equally permanent means, and in that space on the original transcript or
certificate which proved insufficient to contain the necessary matter
there shall appear a reference to the attached paper or papers,
adequately identifying the same. Each such added paper shall be
subscribed at the very end of the matter contained thereon by the same
person who certifies the transcript or certificate to which said paper
or papers shall be attached.
