Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     25-31-914. Lien on real property. The judgment rendered in a justice's court creates a lien upon any lands of the defendant upon the filing of a transcript of the original docket, certified by the clerk of the justice's court, with the office of the clerk of the district court of the county in which the lands are situated. When so filed and from the time of filing, the judgment becomes a lien upon all real property of the judgment debtor, not exempt from execution, in such county, owned by him at the time or which he may afterwards and before the lien expires acquire. The lien continues for 6 years unless the judgment be previously satisfied.

     History: En. Sec. 614, p. 164, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 720, p. 180, Cod. Stat. 1871; amd. Sec. 1, p. 38, L. 1876; re-en. Sec. 780, p. 184, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 800, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; en. Sec. 1633, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; amd. Sec. 2, p. 243, L. 1897; re-en. Sec. 7059, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9692, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 900; re-en. Sec. 9692, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-7314; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 285, L. 1991.

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