Scott v. Russ

Citations

• 21 Fla. 260

Syllabus

<p>1. A decree pronounced and entered in a suit for foreclosure of mortgage is not a. lien on any real estate of tlie defendant other than that embraced in the mortgage, notwithstanding the language of the deoree is that the complainant “recover of the defendant” a specific sum* of money.</p> <p>&. A decree obtained subsequently at chambers for the balance due the mortgagor after the application of the proceeds of sale to his mortgage debt, under equity rule 89, is a lien on the lands of the defendant the same as a judgment at law, when the said decree is filed and entered in the minutes of the court or the chancery order book.</p>