New Mexico Code § 39-1-14

[Effect of confessed judgment; transcripts filed in other counties; liens.]
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Such judgment, when so filed, recorded and docketed, shall have all the binding force and effect that judgments obtained in the regular manner have by law in said courts, as to being liens upon real estate of such defendant, and otherwise. And the beneficiary, under such judgment, shall have the same right to file transcripts thereof in other counties to be a lien upon the real estate of such defendant, as any plaintiff has, under the law, in like manner, filing a certified transcript thereof in the office of the county clerk of such other county or counties.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 20, § 6; C.L. 1897, § 3082; Code 1915, § 3076; C.S. 1929, § 76-107; 1941 Comp., § 19-914; 1953 Comp., § 21-9-14.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Practice of warrant of attorney not abrogated. — This section does not cover the same field as that occupied by the common-law practice of taking judgments on warrant of attorney, and does not abrogate such practice. First Nat'l Bank v. Baker , 1919-NMSC-009, 25 N.M. 208, 180 P. 291.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 46 Am. Jur. 2d Judgments §§ 228 et seq., 360 et seq.
49 C.J.S. Judgments §§ 168, 463, 471.

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