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Dormant jndgment

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One which has not been satisfied, nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained so long unexecuted that execution cannot now be issued upon it without first reviving the judgment, or one which has lost its lien on land from the failure to issue execution on it or take other steps to enforce it within the time limited by statute. 1 Black, Judgm. (2d Ed.) § 462; Draper v. Nixon. 93 Ala. 436, 8 South. 489.

Defined under Dormant in Black's Law Dictionary.