Title 28 — Judicial Procedure, Civil

Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P., Rule 58.

Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P., Rule 77.

Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P., Rules 20, 41, 54.

Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P., Rule 54.

Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P., Rule 54.

If judgment has been rendered against a person who thereafter dies: 1. The judgment may be enforced by execution against any real property of the decedent upon which it had become a lien prior to the decedent's death, but no such execution may issue until after the expiration of …

In an action to recover the possession of personal property, the judgment for the plaintiff may be for the possession, or for the recovery of possession, or for the value thereof in case a delivery cannot be had and for damages for the taking and detention thereof. If the propert…

Every judgment that contains a direction for the sale of specific real property also may direct the delivery of the possession of the property to the purchaser, and the officer receiving the execution or order of sale may enforce the judgment by putting the purchaser in possessio…

Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P., Rule 70.

Repealed by S.L. 1985, ch. 337, § 25.

The judgment must specify clearly the relief granted or other determination of the action. An entry of the judgment must be made by the clerk in the register of civil actions. The entry of any judgment affecting the title or possession of real property, except judgments required …

Unless the party or the party's attorney furnishes a judgment roll, the clerk, immediately after entering the judgment, shall attach together and file the following papers, which constitute the judgment roll unless otherwise directed by rule of the supreme court: 1. In cases when…

1. On filing a judgment roll upon a judgment that directs the payment of money, the clerk of the district court in which the judgment was rendered shall docket the judgment in a separate record to be known as the "judgment docket". The judgment may be docketed in any other county…

Whenever an appeal from any judgment is pending and the undertaking requisite to stay execution on such judgment has been given and the appeal perfected as provided in this title, the court in which such judgment was recovered, on motion after notice to the person owning the judg…

No judgment for the recovery of money against any person may be docketed or entered until the judgment creditor, or the judgment creditor's agent or attorney, has filed with the clerk of the district court an affidavit stating the full name, occupation, place of residence, and po…

Unless otherwise directed by rules of the supreme court, the clerk shall docket the judgment by entering alphabetically in the judgment docket the names of the judgment debtors, the names of the parties in whose favor the judgment was rendered, the sum recovered or directed to be…

Upon the filing of a transcript of judgment in the office of any clerk of a district court, the clerk with whom such transcript is filed forthwith shall notify by mail the clerk issuing the same of the time when such judgment was docketed in the county in which such transcript is…

Repealed by S.L. 1969, ch. 294, § 10.

Repealed by S.L. 1985, ch. 337, § 25.

Every clerk of the district court, upon the presentation of an assignment of any judgment rendered or docketed in the court, signed by the party in whose favor the judgment is rendered, or by the party's executor or administrator, and acknowledged in the manner prescribed by law …

Any judgment rendered or docketed in any district court of this state may be canceled and discharged by the clerk thereof, upon the filing with the clerk of an acknowledgment of the satisfaction thereof signed by the party in whose favor the judgment was obtained, or by that part…

Upon the return of an execution issued upon a judgment that has been satisfied, or the presentation of a satisfaction duly executed, to the clerk of any district court, the clerk shall immediately note upon the judgment docket the date and manner of the cancellation.

A partial satisfaction of a judgment may be made and noted upon the records in like manner as a full satisfaction, and thereupon the judgment and all liens thereby created must be taken and deemed to be canceled and discharged to the extent of the entries so made upon the judgmen…

Upon the cancellation and discharge of any judgment by the clerk of the district court of the county wherein the judgment was rendered or docketed, such clerk immediately shall forward to the clerk of the district court of any other county wherein a transcript of such judgment do…

Any judgment debtor upon a money judgment duly docketed in the district court from which judgment an appeal has been perfected to the supreme court by the judgment creditor may cause such judgment to be released as a lien against the real property of said judgment debtor by depos…

Repealed by S.L. 2007, ch. 275, § 3.

1. If a judgment lien appears on a judgment debtor's real property and the debtor is later the subject of bankruptcy proceedings in which the judgment lien is avoided or set aside, the judgment lien may be terminated of record by filing a certified copy of the bankruptcy court li…

Repealed by S.L. 2007, ch. 275, § 3.

Mutual final judgments may be set off pro tanto, the one against the other, by the court, upon proper application and notice.

Interest is payable on judgments entered in the courts of this state at the same rate as is provided in the original instrument upon which the action resulting in the judgment is based, which rate may not exceed the maximum rate provided in section 47-14-09. If such original inst…

1. For judgments initially docketed before August 1, 2021, after ten years after the entry of a judgment that has not been renewed, or after twenty years after the entry of a judgment that has been renewed, the judgment must be canceled of record. 2. For judgments initially docke…

A partial payment made on a judgment must be applied first to postjudgment costs. If the payment exceeds the costs, the excess amount must be applied toward satisfying the interest due. If the payment exceeds the costs and interest, the excess amount must be applied toward discha…