Cocke v. Conquest’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Article 5447. Each clerk of a court, when the person in whose favor a judgment was rendered, his agent, attorney or assignee, applies therefor, shall make out, certify under his hand and official seal, and deliver to such applicant upon the payment of the fee allowed by law, an abstract of such judgment showing: “1. The names of the plaintiff and of the defendant in such judgment. “2. The number of the suit in which the judgment was rendered. “3. The date when such judgment was rendered. “4. The amount for which the judgment was rendered and balance due thereon. “5. The rate of interest specified in the judgment. “Each justice of the peace shall also make and deliver an abstract of any judgment rendered in his court in the manner herein provided, certified under his hand.” “Art. 5448. Each county clerk shall keep a well bound book called the ‘judgment record,’ and he shall immediately file and therein record all properly authenticated abstracts of judgment when presented to him for record, noting therein the day and hour of such record. He shall at the same time, enter it upon the alphabetical index to such judgment record, showing the name of each plaintiff and of each defendant in the judgment, and the number of the page of the book upon which the abstract is recorded. He shall leave a space át the foot of each such abstract for the entry of credits upon and satisfaction of such judgment, and shall enter the same when properly shown.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barton v. Parks