South Dakota § 15-16-6 - Entry and indexing of judgments in judgment docket--Contents of entries.
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§ 15-16-6. Entry and indexing of judgments in judgment docket--Contents of entries.
The clerk shall docket the judgment by entering alphabetically in the judgment docket the names of the judgment debtor or debtors, and also alphabetically, the name of each party against whom a judgment for money or costs is rendered, the names of the party or parties in whose favor the judgment was rendered, the sum recovered or directed to be paid, in figures, the date of the judgment, the year, day, hour, and minute when the judgment or transcript was filed, the year, day, hour, and minute when the judgment was docketed in his office; the name of the court in which the judgment was rendered; the name of any attorneys for the party recovering the judgment, and if there are two or more judgment debtors, such entries shall be repeated under the initial letter of the surname of each.
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.1712; SL 1990, ch 149, § 5.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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