28-20-14. Release of judgment lien on appeal.
Whenever an appeal from any judgment is pending and the undertaking requisite to stay
execution on such judgment has been given and the appeal perfected as provided in this title,
the court in which such judgment was recovered, on motion after notice to the person owning
the judgment, may direct the clerk to make an entry on the judgment docket that the judgment is
secured on appeal, and thereupon it, during the pendency of the appeal, ceases to be a lien on
the real property of the judgment debtor as against purchasers and mortgagees in good faith
and for value.
28-20-15. Affidavit of identification required before filing of judgments.
No judgment for the recovery of money against any person may be docketed or entered
until the judgment creditor, or the judgment creditor's agent or attorney, has filed with the clerk of
the district court an affidavit stating the full name, occupation, place of residence, and post-office
address of the judgment debtor, to the best of the affiant's information and belief, and if the
debtor has a known street address, or residence number, or both, it must be given. This section
does not apply to any case in which judgment is taken against a corporation, limited liability
company, copartnership, public official, or party sued in a representative capacity. Failure to file
such affidavit, or the filing of a defective or insufficient affidavit, does not invalidate the judgment
docketed or entered, but the clerk of the district court entering or docketing a judgment without
such affidavit of identification is liable to any person damaged thereby in the sum of five dollars.
28-20-16. How judgment docketed.
Unless otherwise directed by rules of the supreme court, the clerk shall docket the judgment
by entering alphabetically in the judgment docket the names of the judgment debtors, the
names of the parties in whose favor the judgment was rendered, the sum recovered or directed
to be paid in figures, the date of the judgment, the exact time to the minute when the judgment
roll or transcript was filed, the exact time to the minute when the judgment was docketed in the
clerk's office, the name of the court in which the judgment was rendered, and the name of the
attorneys for the party recovering the judgment. If there are two or more judgment debtors, the
entries must be repeated under the initial letter of each surname.
28-20-17. Duties of clerks on filing transcript.
Upon the filing of a transcript of judgment in the office of any clerk of a district court, the
clerk with whom such transcript is filed forthwith shall notify by mail the clerk issuing the same of
the time when such judgment was docketed in the county in which such transcript is filed, and a
memorandum showing the time of such docketing must be entered by the clerk who issued the
transcript, upon that clerk's judgment docket.
28-20-18. Docketing judgments of United States courts - Effect.
Repealed by S.L. 1969, ch. 294, § 10.
28-20-19. Docketing of county court judgments - Effect.
Repealed by S.L. 1985, ch. 337, § 25.
28-20-20. Assignment of judgment to be entered upon the judgment docket.
Every clerk of the district court, upon the presentation of an assignment of any judgment
rendered or docketed in the court, signed by the party in whose favor the judgment is rendered,
or by the party's executor or administrator, and acknowledged in the manner prescribed by law
for the acknowledgment of deeds, shall note the fact of the assignment, the date thereof, and
the name of the assignee upon the docket of the judgment. No filing fee may be charged or
collected by the clerk of district court for entering an assignment of a judgment. The clerk of the
district court of any other county where the judgment is docketed shall note the fact of the
assignment, the date thereof, and the name of the assignee, upon the presentation and filing
with that clerk of a certified copy of the original judgment docket with the facts of the assignment
noted thereon.
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