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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 511.500

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • real estate: as used in this chapter, shall be construed to include all estate and interest in lands, tenements and hereditaments liable to be sold upon execution. See Missouri Laws 511.010
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

No judgment hereafter rendered by any court shall be a lien on real estate situate in such counties or city not within a county, until an abstract of the judgment shall be entered in a record prepared and maintained in the manner prescribed by supreme court rule which shall be available for public inspection in the office of the circuit clerk, and which shall state: the names of the parties; the date of the judgment; the nature of the judgment or decree; the amount of the debt, damages and costs; and the satisfaction or other disposition thereof, with any necessary notes thereon. The liens of all judgments entered in such record, as provided in this section, shall have priority according to the sequence of and from the time of its respective entry into the record, such time being deemed within the period of time in which the abstract thereof should be furnished to or provided by the circuit clerk pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.