North Carolina § 46A-58 - Clerk to docket owelty.
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§ 46A-58. Clerk to docket owelty.
If the court orders owelty, the clerk shall enter the owelty on the judgment docket in the same manner as judgments are entered on the docket. The clerk shall mark as plaintiffs on the judgment docket persons whose shares are to be paid owelty, and the clerk shall mark as defendants on the judgment docket persons whose shares are charged with owelty. The entry on the docket shall contain the title of the special proceeding in which the property was partitioned. When owelty is paid, the entry upon the judgment docket shall be marked satisfied in the same manner as judgments are cancelled and marked satisfied, and the clerk shall be entitled to the same fees for entering this judgment as the clerk is entitled to for docketing other judgments. The docketing of owelty under this section does not release the property from the owelty. Any judgment docketed under this section is not a lien on any property other than the property charged with owelty. History (1911, c. 9, s. 1; C.S., s. 3232; 2020-23, ss. 2(x), 3.) Editor's Note. - This section is former G.S. 46-21 , as recodified by Session Laws 2020-23, s. 2(x), effective October 1, 2020, and applicable to partition proceedings commenced on or after that date. The historical citation from the former section has been added to this section as recodified. The case note for this section was decided under the former section. Session Laws 2020-23, s. 18, made the rewriting of this section by Session Laws 2020-23, s. 3, effective October 1, 2020, and applicable to partition proceedings commenced on or after that date. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2020-23, s. 3 rewrote the section. For effective date and applicability, see editor's note.
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