Effective 28 Aug 2003
511.510. Duty of clerk to furnish and enter abstracts — satisfaction of judgments — liability of clerk. — It shall be the duty of the clerks of any division of the circuit court to, within five days after the rendition of any final judgment in their respective division, enter an abstract of such judgment in the record as required in section 511.500; and the clerk shall immediately enter the same when the abstract aforesaid shall be furnished to such clerk by any party interested, or such party's agent; and each of the clerks and their sureties shall be respectively liable for any damage occasioned by any neglect to perform the duties hereby required of them respectively; and it is further provided that whenever any personal representative, guardian or conservator, or any party interested, or such party's agent, shall exhibit to the clerk of the court wherein such judgment may be recorded a receipt or certificate of the proper officer, stating that such judgment has been duly satisfied, then the circuit clerk shall, without further fee, enter satisfaction of such judgment in such clerk's office in the record as required in section 511.500.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1315, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45, A.L. 1992 H.B. 982 merged with S.B. 833, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248, A.L. 2003 H.B. 613)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1151; 1919 § 1602; 1909 § 2171
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