MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1997 Regular Session

To: County Affairs; Fees, Salaries and Administration

By: Senator(s) Little (By Request)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 11-7-189 AND 11-7-195, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE FOR THE LISTING IN THE JUDGMENT ROLL OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF DEFENDANTS AGAINST WHOM A JUDGMENT IS LEVIED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.  

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 11-7-189, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

11-7-189. (1) The clerk of the circuit court shall procure and keep in his office one or more books to be styled "The Judgment Roll," which book or books shall be appropriately divided under the several letters of the alphabet, and on each page shall be placed the following captions:

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Defendant's

Name and

Name of

Defendant's

Attorney County Social

and Post and Security

Office Amount of Court or Tax

Address of Judgment Date of in Which Identification

Each or Decree Rendition Rendered Number

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Plaintiff's Name,

Plaintiff's

Date, Hour Attorney, When and

and Minute of and Post Office How

Enrollment Address of Each Satisfied Remarks

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The clerk shall, within twenty (20) days after the adjournment of each term of court, enroll all final judgments rendered at that term in the order in which they were entered on the minutes by entering on The Judgment Roll, under the proper letter or letters of the alphabet, the name of each and every defendant to such judgment and the post office address of each defendant if such post office address is known or readily ascertainable, the Social Security or tax identification number of each defendant, and if such defendant or defendants have an attorney at law in such case the name and post office address of such attorney or firm of attorneys if such post office address is known or readily ascertainable; the amount of such judgment; date of rendition; county and court in which rendered; the date, hour and minute of enrollment; and the name of the plaintiff or plaintiffs and the post office address of each plaintiff if readily ascertainable, and if represented by an attorney at law or a firm of attorneys then the name and post office address of such attorney or firm of attorneys if the post office address is known or readily ascertainable. The name of the attorney or firm of attorneys and post office addresses of the parties may be subsequently inserted by the clerk at any time.

(2) Any attorney of record representing a plaintiff or plaintiffs in the case may, for and on behalf of his client or clients, satisfy in whole or in part a judgment on such Judgment Roll by endorsing thereon the extent of such satisfaction and signing an entry so showing, and when so satisfied the clerk shall attest and subscribe such endorsement under the proper heading therein. When any judgment shall otherwise be satisfied, the clerk shall so enter under proper heading and subscribe the entry.

(3) The Judgment Roll may be kept on computer as provided in Section 9-7-171. In such case the plaintiff or attorney representing such plaintiff shall present to the clerk a sworn affidavit directing the clerk to cancel or otherwise show as satisfied the judgment recorded under this section.

SECTION 2. Section 11-7-195, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

11-7-195. A judgment or decree rendered in any court of the United States or of this state shall not be a lien upon or bind any property of the defendant situated out of the county in which the judgment or decree was rendered until the plaintiff shall file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such property is situated an abstract of such judgment or decree which has been certified by the clerk of the court in which the same was rendered containing the names of all the parties to such judgment or decree, its amount, the Social Security or tax identification number of the defendant, * * * the date of the rendition, and the amount appearing to have been paid thereon, if any. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court on receiving such abstract and on payment of the fees allowed by law for filing and enrolling the same, to file and forthwith enroll the same on The Judgment Roll, as in other cases. Such judgment or decree shall, from the date of its enrollment, be a lien upon and bind the property of the defendant within the county where it shall be so enrolled. If a foreign judgment has been filed in any county of this state pursuant to Sections 11-7-301 through 11-7-309 and such judgment may be enforced in such county, then, for purposes of this section, such judgment shall be treated as if it had been rendered in such county and may be enrolled on The Judgment Roll in other counties pursuant to the provisions of this section. Any judgment for the purpose described in Section 85-3-52 shall not be a lien on any property in this state, real, personal or mixed, that is owned by a resident of this state and shall not be enforced or satisfied against any such property.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1997.