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§ 9-12-86. Recordation in County Where Property Located Prerequisite to Lien on Land

For purposes of this Code section, the term “applicable records” shall include deed books, lis pendens dockets, federal tax lien dockets, general execution dockets, and attachment dockets. No judgment, decree, or order or any writ of fieri facias issued pursuant to any judgment, decree, or order of any superior court, city court, magistrate court, municipal […]

§ 9-12-87. Judgments From Same Term Considered of Equal Date

All judgments signed on verdicts rendered at the same term of court shall be considered, held, and taken to be of equal date. In the case of judgments signed on verdicts rendered at the same term of the court, no execution shall be entitled to any preference by reason of being first placed in the […]

§ 9-12-88. Extent Property Affected by Judgment Pending Appeal

In all cases in which a judgment is rendered and an appeal is entered from the judgment, the property of the defendant in judgment shall not be bound by the judgment except so far as to prevent the alienation by the defendant of his property between its signing and the signing of the judgment on […]

§ 9-12-89. Effect of Appellate Proceeding on Lien

A judgment in the trial court which is taken to the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals and is affirmed loses no lien or priority by the proceeding in the appellate court. History. Orig. Code 1863, § 3498; Code 1868, § 3521; Code 1873, § 3579; Code 1882, § 3579; Civil Code 1895, § […]

§ 9-12-90. Judgments Relating to Common Disaster

Liens of all judgments obtained in actions for damages growing out of a common disaster or occurrence shall be equal in rank or priority regardless of the date of the rendition of the verdict or the entering of the judgment. However, this Code section shall apply only to judgments obtained in actions which are filed […]

§ 9-12-91. Effect of Judgment on Promissory Notes

A judgment creates no lien upon promissory notes in the hands of the defendant. History. Orig. Code 1863, § 3501; Code 1868, § 3524; Code 1873, § 3582; Code 1882, § 3582; Civil Code 1895, § 5353; Code 1910, § 5948; Code 1933, § 110-509.