Section 511.440

Title XXXV CIVIL PROCEDURE AND LIMITATIONS

Chapter 511

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   

  511.440.  Transcript of judgment a lien in another county, when — procedure. — 1.  Judgments and decrees obtained in the supreme court or any district of the court of appeals or any United States court or any court of record in this state shall, upon the filing of a transcript thereof in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of any other county and indexing of such transcript as provided in subsection 2 of this section, be a lien upon the real estate of the person against whom such judgment or decree is rendered, situate in the county in which such transcript is filed.

  2.  Such judgment or decree as provided in subsection 1 of this section shall be entered in the record kept by the clerk of the circuit court having jurisdiction of civil causes within a county or a city not within a county, for judgments and decrees of the circuit court of such county as provided in section 511.500, except that the record of entry of such judgment or decree shall also include the name and location of the court that rendered such judgment or decree.

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(RSMo 1939 § 1306, A. 1949 H.B. 2119, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1994 S.B. 424, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1142; 1919 § 1593; 1909 § 2162