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CHAPTER 9. REAL ESTATE SUBJECT TO JUDGMENT AND EXECUTION

IC 34-55-9
     Chapter 9. Real Estate Subject to Judgment and Execution

IC 34-55-9-1
Real estate liable to judgment and attachment enumerated
    
Sec. 1. The following real estate is liable to all judgments and attachments and to be sold on execution against the debtor owing the real estate or for whose use the real estate is held:
        (1) All lands of the judgment debtor, whether in possession, remainder, or reversion.
        (2) All rights of redeeming mortgaged lands and all lands held by virtue of any land office certificate.
        (3) Lands or any estate or interest in land held by anyone in trust for or to the use of another.
        (4) All chattels real of the judgment debtor.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.

IC 34-55-9-2
Liens upon real estate and chattels real
    
Sec. 2. All final judgments for the recovery of money or costs in the circuit court and other courts of record of general original jurisdiction in Indiana, whether state or federal, constitute a lien upon real estate and chattels real liable to execution in the county where the judgment has been duly entered and indexed in the judgment docket as provided by law:
        (1) after the time the judgment was entered and indexed; and
        (2) until the expiration of ten (10) years after the rendition of the judgment;
exclusive of any time during which the party was restrained from proceeding on the lien by an appeal, an injunction, the death of the defendant, or the agreement of the parties entered of record.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.

IC 34-55-9-3
Judgments on bonds payable to state
    
Sec. 3. Judgments on bonds payable to the state of Indiana bind the real estate of the debtor from the commencement of the action.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.

IC 34-55-9-4
Recognizance binding upon real estate
    
Sec. 4. A recognizance binds the real estate of the principal from the time it is taken. A recognizance only binds the real estate of the surety, however, from the time judgment of forfeiture is rendered.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.

IC 34-55-9-5
Executions issued to another county binding upon real estate
    
Sec. 5. An execution against property issued to another county binds the real estate of the defendant from the time of the levy. As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.

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