Title 16 — Practice, Procedure, And Courts

In all judgments or decrees rendered by any court of justice for any debt, damages, or costs, and on all executions issued thereon, the amount shall be computed, as near as may be, in dollars and cents, rejecting smaller fractions. No judgment or other proceeding shall be conside…

(a) Where special damages are given by statute and it appears, by the verdict of the jury, or other decision of the action, that the special damages are due and recoverable by one of the parties against the other, the court shall render judgment for that party. (b) If, in ascerta…

(a) If a setoff established at the trial exceeds the plaintiff's claim so established, judgment for the defendant must be given for the excess. (b) If it appears that the defendant is entitled to any other affirmative relief, judgment shall be given therefor.

It shall not be necessary to reserve, in a judgment or order, the right of an infant to show cause against the judgment or order after his or her attaining full age. However, in any case in which, but for this section, such a reservation would have been proper, the infant, within…

In all cases where it appears from a recital in the records of any court that actual or constructive notice was given, it shall be evidence of that fact.

All judgments, orders, sentences, and decrees made, rendered, or pronounced by any of the courts of the state against anyone without notice, actual or constructive, and all proceedings had under judgments, orders, sentences, or decrees shall be absolutely null and void.

(a) When a trial by a jury has been had, judgment must be entered by the clerk in conformity with the verdict, unless it is special or the court orders the case to be reserved for future argument or consideration. (b) When the verdict is special, where there has been a special fi…

(a) Judgments by default rendered by the circuit courts may be recorded in a separate book for that purpose. (b) The orders showing the rendition of these judgments by default shall be signed by the circuit judge.

(a) If, after a verdict is rendered in any action, either party dies before judgment is actually entered thereon, the court may at any time during the term at which the verdict was rendered enter final judgment in the names of the original parties. (b) Nothing in subsection (a) o…

The judgment must be entered upon the order book and must specify clearly the relief granted or other determination of the action.

(a) The clerk must keep among the records of the court a book to be called the judgment book. (b) The entry in the judgment book must show the names of the plaintiff and defendant and, if more than one (1), then of the first-named of each in the pleadings with the words “and othe…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this section, a judgment entered by a court shall bear post-judgment interest and, if appropriate under the facts of the case, prejudgment interest:(A) In an action on a contract at the rate provided by the contract or at a rate…

(a) In all cases where the court may decree the conveyance of real estate or the delivery of personal property, it may by decree pass the title of the property, without any act to be done on the part of the defendant, when it shall be proper, and may issue a writ of possession, i…

(a) In all cases where a circuit court shall decree a conveyance of real estate or that real estate pass, the party in whose favor the decree is made shall cause a copy thereof to be recorded in the recorder's office of the county in which the lands to be conveyed lie, within one…

(a) (1) (A) A judgment in the Supreme Court or circuit courts of this state, and in the United States district courts or United States bankruptcy courts within this state, shall be a lien on the real estate owned by the defendant in the county in which the judgment was rendered f…

(a) When any judgment is recovered in a court of record by or in favor of any party, all officers who in pursuance of law and attorneys who upon contract expressed or implied have rendered service for or in behalf of the party in the action or proceedings in or upon which the jud…

A.C.A. § 16-65-119Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) The sale of a judgment or any part thereof of any court of record within this state or the sale of any cause of action or interest therein after suit has been filed thereon, shall be evidenced by a written transfer which, when acknowledged in the manner and form required by l…

All judgments, orders, and decrees rendered in open court by any court of record in the State of Arkansas are effective as to all parties of record from the date rendered and not from the date of entry of record.

The records of all personal judgments rendered in circuit court shall contain the social security number of the judgment debtor unless otherwise prohibited under federal law or the social security number is unavailable.

A.C.A. § 16-65-201Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) Judgment shall be rendered summarily against the persons and their securities and for the defaults stated in subsections (b)-(d) of this section.(2) The motion may be made by the party aggrieved or his or her legal representatives against the person in default and his or …

Any person indebted or against whom a cause of action exists may personally appear in a court of competent jurisdiction, and with assent of the creditor or person having the cause of action, confess judgment therefor; whereupon, judgment shall be entered accordingly.

The debt or cause of action shall be briefly stated in the judgment by confession or in a writing to be filed as pleadings in other actions.

A judgment by confession shall authorize the same proceedings for its enforcement as judgments rendered in actions regularly brought and prosecuted.

The confession shall operate as a release of errors.

A.C.A. § 16-65-401Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) The judgment creditor or his or her legal representatives at any time before the expiration of the lien of a judgment may file notice that the judgment is still outstanding in accordance with this section to revive the judgment.(2) The notice shall include with respect to…

(a) (1) If one (1) or more plaintiffs in a judgment or decree dies before the judgment or decree is satisfied or carried into effect, the judgment or decree, if for money or concerning personal property, shall survive to the executors or administrators of the deceased party and, …

If any executor or administrator who is a plaintiff or defendant in any judgment or decree dies, resigns, or is dismissed before the judgment or decree is satisfied or carried into effect, the judgment or decree may be revived by or against the administrator in succession in the …

(a) A judgment may be revived against the personal representatives, heirs, and devisees, or any of them, of a deceased defendant by an action in circuit court without verification of the complaint. (b) A judgment or decree may be revived against the representatives of any decease…

Executions may be issued against the surviving defendant and the representatives of the deceased defendants or such of them as are jointly made parties.

When satisfaction of a judgment or decree shall be acknowledged or entered by order of court, when satisfaction shall be made by execution, or when the judgment or decree shall be reversed or set aside, the clerk shall enter in the margin of the judgment book, opposite the judgme…

(a) Whenever the whole judgment shall appear to be satisfied by the return of an execution, it shall be the duty of the clerk to enter in the judgment book, in the space left for that purpose, “satisfied by execution”. (b) (1) Whenever a judgment is satisfied otherwise than upon …

(a) Judgments for the recovery of money may be set off against each other, having due regard to the legal and equitable rights of all persons interested in both judgments. (b) The setoff may be ordered upon motion after reasonable notice to the adverse party, where both judgments…

During the pendency of an action, or while any claim, contract, or other obligation remains unsatisfied or unfulfilled which could be used as a setoff against a prior judgment in favor of the defendants or parties or any of them, the court shall enjoin and stay collection and enf…