Abstract of judgment filed with circuit clerk to establish lien onreal property--priority of liens (counties and City of St. Louis).

511.500. No judgment hereafter rendered by any court shall be a lienon real estate situate in such counties or city not within a county, untilan abstract of the judgment shall be entered in a record prepared andmaintained in the manner prescribed by supreme court rule which shall beavailable for public inspection in the office of the circuit clerk, andwhich shall state: the names of the parties; the date of the judgment; thenature of the judgment or decree; the amount of the debt, damages andcosts; and the satisfaction or other disposition thereof, with anynecessary notes thereon. The liens of all judgments entered in suchrecord, as provided in this section, shall have priority according to thesequence of and from the time of its respective entry into the record, suchtime being deemed within the period of time in which the abstract thereofshould be furnished to or provided by the circuit clerk pursuant to theprovisions of this chapter.

(RSMo 1939 § 1314, A.L. 1982 S.B. 484, A.L. 1992 H.B. 982 merged with S.B. 833, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1150; 1919 § 1601; 1909 § 2170