§ 11-47-1. Record to be kept by chancery clerk

The clerk of the chancery court shall keep in his office, as a public record, a suitable book, to be called the “Lis Pendens Record.”

§ 11-47-11. Result of proceeding entered

Where the proceedings in or as to the suit or levy, notice of which has been entered in the lis pendens record, shall be terminated, whether on the merits or not, the court wherein the same were pending shall direct the clerk who has the record to make such entry therein as it shall prescribe, […]

§ 11-47-13. Liability of a clerk, sheriff, or other officer

If any clerk fail to perform any of the duties herein required of him, he shall be liable on his official bond to any party injured for all damages he may have sustained. If any sheriff, marshal, or other officer, fail to file the notice provided for in this chapter, upon the levy by him […]

§ 11-47-15. Form of the docket

The lis pendens docket shall be ruled, and have printed at the top of the pages, or opposite page, the following headings for the columns, and the entries shall correspond with them, viz.: Names of plaintiffs; names of defendants; kind of suit or writ; when suit instituted or writ levied; in, or from what court; […]

§ 11-47-3. Notice of suit affecting real estate recorded

When any person shall begin a suit in any court, whether by declaration or bill, or by cross-complaint, to enforce a lien upon, right to, or interest in, any real estate, unless the claim be founded upon an instrument which is recorded, or upon a judgment duly enrolled, in the county in which the real […]

§ 11-47-5. Notice by officer levying on real estate

When the sheriff, United States marshal, or other officer, shall levy upon real estate by virtue of any process, unless it be in execution upon a judgment which is duly enrolled in the county where the real estate is situated, he shall file with the clerk of the chancery court of each county in which […]

§ 11-47-7. Clerk to index the record

The clerk, upon filing and recording each notice, shall index the same, both directly and indirectly, under the name of each party, each plaintiff or complainant, against each defendant, and each defendant at the suit of each plaintiff or complainant.

§ 11-47-9. Effect of failure to enter notice

If a person beginning any such suit, by declaration, bill, or cross-complaint affecting real estate, or if an officer levying any process upon real estate, shall fail to have the required notice entered in the lis pendens record, such suit or levy shall not affect the rights of bona fide purchasers or incumbrancers of such […]