South Carolina Code 15-35-810. Judgments lien on real estate continue for ten years
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 15-35-810
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- real estate: as used in this Title are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments. See South Carolina Code 15-1-30
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
Final judgments and decrees entered in any court of record in this State subsequent to November 25, 1873, or in any circuit or district court of the United States within this State or of any other Federal court the final judgments and decrees of which, by act of Congress, shall be declared to create a lien, shall constitute a lien upon the real estate of the judgment debtor situate in any county in this State in which the judgment or transcript thereof is entered upon the book of abstracts of judgments and duly indexed, the lien to begin from the time of such entry on the book of abstracts and indices and to continue for a period of ten years from the date of such final judgment or decree.