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Public Law 90–263
To provide that a judgment or decree of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall not constitute a be n until tiled and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved March 11, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide that a judgment or decree of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall not constitute a be n until tiled and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of subsection (a) of section 15–101 of the District of Columbia
Code is amended to read as follows:
“Except, as provided by subsection (b) of this section, every final judgment or final decree for the payment of money rendered in the—
“(1) United States District. Court for the District of Columbia; or
“(2) District of Columbia Court of General Sessions—
when filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, is enforceable, by execution issued thereon, for the period of twelve years only from the date when an execution might first be issued thereon, or from the date of the last order of revival thereof.”
Sec. 2.
Subsection (a) of Section 15–102 of the District of Columbia Code is amended to read as follows:
“(a) Each—
“(1) final judgment, or decree for the payment of money rendered in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, or the District of Columbia Court, of General Sessions, from the date such judgment or decree is filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District, of Columbia, and
“(2) recognizance taken by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, or the District of Columbia Court of Genera] Sessions, from the date the entry or order of forfeiture of such recognizance is filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia,
shall constitute a be n on all the freehold and leasehold estates, legal and equitable, of the defendants bound by such judgment, decree, or recognizance, in any land, tenements, or hereditaments in the District of Columbia, whether the estates are in possession or are reversions or remainders, vested or contingent. Such hens on equitable interests may be enforced only by an action to foreclose.”
Sec. 3.
Section 15–311 of the District of Columbia Code is amended to read as follows:
“§ 15–311. Property subject to levy
“The writ of fieri facias may be levied on all goods and chattels of the debtor not exempt from execution, and upon money, bills, checks, promissory notes, or bonds, or certificates of stock in corporations owned by the debtor, and upon his money in the hands of the marshal or his deputy or other officer or person charged with the execution of the writ. A writ of fieri facias issued from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions upon a judgment entered in such court may Ire levied on all legal leasehold and freehold estates of the debtor in land, but only after such judgment has been filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia.”
Sec. 4.
The amendments made by the first section and section 2
Effective dates.
of this Act shall apply only with respect to judgments or decrees rendered in, or recognizances declared forfeited by, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on and after April 1, 1968.
The amendment made by section 3 of this Act shall apply only with respect to writs of fieri facias issued by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on and after April 1, 1968.
Approved March 11, 1968.