2006 Minnesota Statutes

508A.63 REGISTRATION OF INSTRUMENTS CREATING LIENS; JUDGMENTS.
No judgment requiring the payment of money shall be a lien upon land registered under
sections 508A.01 to 508A.85, except as herein provided. Any person claiming a lien shall file
with the registrar a certified copy of the judgment, together with a written statement containing a
description of each parcel of land in which the judgment debtor has a registered interest and upon
which the lien is claimed, and a proper reference to the CPT or CPTs to the land. Upon filing
the copy and statement, the registrar shall enter a memorial of the judgment upon each CPT
designated in the statement, and the judgment shall then be and become a lien upon the judgment
debtor's interest in the land described in CPT or CPTs. At any time after filing the certified copy of
the judgment, any person claiming the lien may, by filing a written statement, as herein provided,
cause a memorial of the judgment to be entered upon any CPT to land in which the judgment
debtor has a registered interest and not described in any previous statement and the judgment shall
then be and become a lien upon the judgment debtor's interest in the land. The public authority for
child support enforcement may present for filing a notice of judgment lien under section 548.091
with identifying information for a parcel of real property. Upon receipt of the notice of judgment
lien, the registrar shall enter a memorial of it upon each certificate of possessory title which
reasonably can be identified as owned by the judgment debtor on the basis of the information
provided. The judgment shall survive and the lien thereof shall continue for a period of ten
years from the date of the judgment and no longer; and the registrar shall not carry forward to a
new certificate of title the memorial of the judgment after that period. In every case where an
instrument of any description, or a copy of any writ, order, or decree, is required by law to be filed
or recorded in order to create or preserve any lien, writ, or attachment upon unregistered land, the
instrument or copy, if intended to affect registered land, shall, in lieu of recording, be filed and
registered with the registrar. In addition to any facts required by law to be stated in the instruments
to entitle them to be filed or recorded, they shall also contain a reference to the number of the CPT
of the land to be affected. If the attachment, charge, or lien is not claimed on all the land described
in any CPT, the instrument shall contain a description sufficient to identify the land.
History: 1982 c 396 s 56; 1996 c 338 art 1 s 7; 1997 c 203 art 6 s 33