Chap. 25.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Four of Chapter One
Hundred and Eighty-six of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Docketing
Judgments and other Liens of a like nature.

Approved January 14, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section four
of chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the Code of eighteen
hundred and sixty, in relation to docketing judgments an
other liens of a like nature, be amended and re-enacted s0 a
to read as follows:

§4. The clerk of each county and corporation court shal
keep in his office, in a well bound book, a judgment docket, n
which he shall docket, without delay, any judgment in thi
state, when he shall be required to do so by any person inter
ested, on such person’s delivering to him an authenticated ab
stract of it; and shall docket every judgment rendered in hi
court, and every judgment the abstract of which may be de
livered to him by the clerk of the circuit court of his count;
or corporation; and the clerk of the circuit court of eack
county and corporation in this state shall, without delay, de
liver to the clerks of the county and corporation courts of his
county and corporation, an authenticated abstract of every
jadgment rendered in his court or office. In such docket there
shall be stated, in separate columns, the date and amount o:
the judgment, the date of docketing it, the alternative value o:
any specific property recovered by it, the amount and date ot!
any credits thereon, with the names, description and residence
of the parties, so far as they appear in his office or in such ab.
stract, and when paid off or discharged in whole or in part, the
time thereof. Every judgment shall, so soon as it is docketed,
be indexed by the clerk in the name of each defendant therein,
and unless so indexed, it shall not be regarded as docketed ;
and the fact of the payment or discharge of said judgment,
either in whole or in part, shall be entered as aforesaid by the
clerk upon the return of an execution showing such satis-
faction, either in whole or in part, or upon the certifi-
cate of the clerk from whose office such execution issued, that
the same has been satisfied, either in whole or in part, or upon
the direction of the judgment creditor or his attorney. And
in all cases where payment or satisfaction shall be made, which
does not appear by the return of an execution to the office
of the clerk where the judgment is docketed, it shall be the duty
of the judgment creditor, either by himself, his agent or attor-
ney, to cause such payment or satisfaction, whether in whole or
m part, to be entered on the said.judgment docket within
ninety days after the same is made; and for any failure so to
do, such judgment creditor shall be hable in damages to any
person injured thereby. And for the additional service hereby
mposed on the clerk of entering satisfaction on his judgment
locket, he shall be entitled to charge a fee of twenty cents, to
e paid by the judgment debtor. And if the clerk fail to do
nything required of him by this section, he shall pay a fine of
10t less than thirty, nor more than three hundred dollars, to
ny person who will prosecute therefor. ,

2. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of
july, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.