Eames v. Germania Turn Verein

Citations

• 74 Ill. 54

Syllabus

<p>1. Lien of a money decree. Where a decree finds a specific sum of money due from one party to another, and orders a sale of specific property, and in case not enough is realized from such sale to pay the amount that an execution issue, such decree is a money decree, within the meaning of the fourteenth section of the chapter entitled Chancery, of the Revised Statutes of 1845, and becomes a lien upon the real estate of the party against whom it is rendered, the same as a judgment at law.</p> <p>2. The lien of a money decree, like that of a judgment at law, only continues for one year after it is rendered, unless an execution is issued within that time.</p>