Chapter 729. to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States
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CHAP. 729.— An Act to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States.August 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Judgments of United States courts to be liens on property in States. That judgments and decrees rendered in a circuit or district court of the United States within any State, shall be liens on property throughout such State in the same manner and to the same extent and under the same conditions only as if such judgments and decrees had been rendered by a court of general jurisdiction of such State: *Provided*, That whenever*Proviso*.Record under State laws. the laws of any State require a judgment or decree of a State court to be registered, recorded, docketed, indexed, or any other thing to be done, in a particular manner, or in a certain office or county, or parish in the State of Louisiana before a lien shall attach, this act shall be applicable therein whenever and only whenever the laws of such State shall authorize the judgments and decrees of the United States courts to be registered, recorded, docketed, indexed, or otherwise conformed to the rules and requirements relating to the judgments and decrees of the courts of the State.
Sec. 2. That the clerks of the several courts of the United StatesIndexes of judgment records. shall prepare and keep in their respective offices complete and convenient indices and cross-indices of the judgment records of said 358FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 729, 730, 738. 1888. courts, and such indices and records shall at all times be open to the inspection and examination of the public. Sec. 3. Nothing herein shall be construed to require the docketingRecord in same county not requisite to validity of lien. of a judgment or decree of a United States court, or the filing of a transcript thereof, in any State office with in the same county or parish in the State of Louisiana in which the judgment or decree is rendered, in order that such judgment or decree may be a lien on any property within such county.
Approved, August 1, 1888.