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AR Code § 18-40-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 40 - Mortgages|§ 18-40-109. Transfer, etc., by separate instrument

 (a)  (1) No provision contained in §§ 18-40-103, 18-40-106, 18-40-107, and this section shall prevent any mortgagee, trustee, agent of owner of record, or the owner of record, transferee, or assignee appearing of record, from selling, transferring, or assigning any deed of trust, mortgage, or vendor's lien retained in deed by separate instrument duly acknowledged and recorded.  (2) At the time of recording any separate instrument transferring any mortgage, deed of trust, vendor's lien, or lien retained in deed, note, bond, or other instrument, the clerk and ex officio recorder in the office in which the transfer or assignment shall appear shall note on the margin of the record of the original mortgage, deed of trust, or deed retaining vendor's lien a memorandum noting that the lien contained in the instrument, and the notes or other instruments evidenced thereby, have been transferred, to whom transferred, the date of the transfer, and the book and page where the separate instrument and transfer may be found.  (3) The failure of the clerk and ex officio recorder to make the marginal entry or notation shall not invalidate the sale, transfer, or assignment recorded as provided in this section.    (b)  (1) The clerks in counties which use other than paper recording systems shall not allow any assignment by marginal notation after December 31, 1995.  (2) Any such marginal notation entered after December 31, 1995, is void.
AR Code § 18-40-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 40 - Mortgages|§ 18-40-110. Recording by public utilities covering property situated in more than one county

 (a) Every mortgage, deed of trust, and instrument supplementary thereto, amendatory thereof, or in satisfaction thereof, covering any real property situated in more than one (1) county in this state and made by a corporation subject to regulation by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, or its successor, shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner provided by law and may be recorded or filed in the office of the Secretary of State, but the recording or filing is not mandatory.  (b) The recording or filing of the instrument in the office of the Secretary of State shall be notice to all subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers of the rights and interests of the parties thereto as to property described in the recorded or filed instrument.  (c) A general description of the property of the mortgagor, rather than a specific description of each parcel or item, shall be an adequate description.  (d) Any such instrument previously recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder or circuit clerk of any county in this state may be rerecorded or refiled in the office of the Secretary of State in the manner provided in this section. The rerecording or refiling thereafter shall be of the same effect as to any property not previously released from the mortgage or deed of trust as if the instrument had been originally recorded or filed in the office of the Secretary of State.  (e) Any mortgage properly filed in the office of the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be a lien on the mortgaged property from the time it is filed, and not before.  (f) Upon the filing of any instrument as provided in this section, there shall also be filed with the recorder of deeds of the county wherein the mortgaged property is situated a brief statement containing the names of the mortgagor and mortgagee and a description of the property. An adequate property description shall consist of language reading substantially as follows: “All property owned by mortgagor and situated in County, Arkansas.”  (g) Instruments recorded or filed prior to July 24, 1973, shall not be affected by this section.  (h) All other laws not in conflict with this section which relate to the time when, or manner or place in which, mortgages, deeds of trust, or instruments supplementary thereto, amendatory thereof, or in satisfaction thereof are filed, executed, or acknowledged or which relate to the manner of endorsement of the record where the instrument is recorded shall be construed to apply to instruments recorded or filed in the office of the Secretary of State pursuant to this section.
AR Code § 18-41-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-101. Lien on crop — Period effective — Definition

 (a) Every landlord shall have a lien upon the crop grown upon the demised premises in any year for rent that shall accrue for the year.  (b)  (1) The lien is perfected and shall have priority over a conflicting security interest in or agricultural lien on the crop regardless of when the conflicting security interest or agricultural lien is perfected.  (2) The lien shall continue for six (6) months after the last installment of rent under the rental agreement becomes due and payable, and no longer.    (c)  (1) As used in this section, “rent” means all payments to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement.  (2) “Rent” includes a payment paid on behalf of the tenant by a government agency or other entity.
AR Code § 18-41-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-102. Liability of subtenants

 Any person subrenting lands or tenements shall be held responsible only for the rent of lands and tenements cultivated or occupied by him or her.
AR Code § 18-41-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-103. Lien for advances — Enforcement

 (a)  (1) In addition to the lien given by law to landlords, if any landlord, to enable his or her tenant or employee to make and gather the crop, shall advance the tenant or employee any necessary supplies, either of money, provisions, clothing, stock, or other necessary articles, the landlord shall have a lien upon the crop raised upon the premises for the value of the advances.  (2) The lien is perfected and shall have priority over a conflicting security interest in or agricultural lien on the crop regardless of when the conflicting security interest or agricultural lien is perfected.    (b) This lien shall have preference over any mortgage or other conveyance of the crop made by the tenant or employee.  (c) This lien may be enforced by an action of attachment before any court having jurisdiction, and the lien for advances and for rent may be joined and enforced in the same action.
AR Code § 18-41-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-104. Priority of tenant employees' liens

 (a) Whenever any landlord shall endorse, upon any written agreement made by and between his or her tenant and the employees of the tenant, his or her written consent to the terms of the agreement, then, and in that case only, the lien of the employees shall have precedence over that of the landlord.  (b) This precedence shall be only for the compensation specified in the agreement, the services therein specified having been rendered towards the production of the crop against which the landlord's lien attaches.
AR Code § 18-41-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-105. Waiver to be recited in mortgage

 If any mortgagee procures a waiver of the landlord's lien, in part or in full, he or she shall recite it in his or her mortgage. If the waiver of lien is not recited in the mortgage, or attached thereto, the waiver shall be invalid against any subsequent mortgagee, purchaser, or assignee.
AR Code § 18-41-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-106. Right to assign

 (a) A landlord's lien for rent shall be assignable.  (b) The holder of any note, contract, or other instrument evidencing the rent for land upon which crops are to be produced during any year may sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, or pledge the note, contract, or other evidence thereof, together with the lien, if any, provided by law in favor of landlords, and the transferee, endorsee, mortgagee, pledgee, or holder thereof shall have the right to enforce the lien so transferred.
AR Code § 18-41-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-107. Purchasers or assignees from bailees

 The purchaser or assignee of the receipt of any ginner, warehouser, cotton factor, or other bailee for any cotton, corn, or other farm products in store or custody of the ginner, warehouser, cotton factor, or other bailee shall not be held to be an innocent purchaser of any such produce against the lien of any landlord or laborer.
AR Code § 18-41-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 41 - Landlords' Liens|§ 18-41-108. Attachment to enforce

 (a) Any landlord who has a lien on the crop for rent shall be entitled to bring suit before a circuit court having jurisdiction and have a writ of attachment for the recovery of it, whether the rent is due or not, in the following cases:  (1) If the tenant is about to remove the crop from the premises without paying the rent; or  (2) If he or she has removed the crop, or any portion thereof, without the consent of the landlord.    (b)  (1) Before the writ of attachment is issued, the landlord or his or her agent or attorney shall file an affidavit of one (1) of the facts under subdivision (a)(1) or subdivision (a)(2) of this section, that the amount claimed is or will be due for rent, or will be the value of the portion of the crop agreed as rent, stating the time the rent became or would become due and that he or she has a lien on the crop for rent.  (2) The landlord or his or her agent or attorney shall file with the clerk of the court a bond to the defendant, with sufficient security, in double the amount of his or her claim as sworn to, conditioned that he or she will prove his or her debt or demand and his or her lien in a trial, or that he or she will pay damages against him or her.    (c) The writ of attachment may be levied on the crop in the possession of the tenant or anyone holding it in his or her right or in the possession of a purchaser from him or her with notice of the lien of the landlord.  (d) If the rent is not due at the commencement of the suit, the trial shall be stayed until it becomes due, and the attachment, at any time before final trial, may be dissolved in the manner prescribed by law, and the cause proceed as other suits.
AR Code § 18-42-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-101. Contracts for more than one year to be in writing

 A contract for services or labor for a period longer than one (1) year shall not entitle the parties to the benefits of this chapter unless the contract is in writing, signed by the parties, and witnessed by two (2) disinterested witnesses or acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take an acknowledgment.
AR Code § 18-42-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-102. Contracts of minors

 (a) The contract of a minor when approved by the parent having control of the minor, or, in case there is no parent, when approved by his or her guardian, or the contract of a minor over fifteen (15) years of age having neither a parent or guardian shall be binding.  (b) However, a contract with the minor shall not be for a longer period than one (1) year.
AR Code § 18-42-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-103. Out-of-state contracts binding

 Contracts made with laborers or employers beyond the limits of this state for labor or services to be performed in this state shall be as binding as if entered into within this state.
AR Code § 18-42-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-104. Filing and indexing of contracts

 (a) A copy of the contract or the original shall be filed in the recorder's office of the proper county. The filing shall be sufficient notice of the existence of the lien.  (b) No third party shall be prejudiced by the existence of the lien, nor in any manner liable under a provision of this chapter unless a copy of the contract is filed in the recorder's office as provided.
AR Code § 18-42-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-105. Reservation of lien

 Specific liens are reserved upon so much of the produce raised and articles constructed or manufactured by laborers during their contract as will secure all moneys, the value of all supplies furnished them by the employers, and all wages or shares due the laborer.
AR Code § 18-42-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-106. Penalty for fraudulent disposition

 (a) If either party, before settlement, shall dispose of or appropriate any of the things set forth in § 18-42-105 without the consent of the other so as to defraud him or her of the amount due, that party shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction may be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and confined in the county jail not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months.  (b) Nothing in this section shall be so construed as forbidding the laborer from mortgaging so much of his or her crop for necessary supplies as may be equal to his or her interest therein at the time, if the employer having contracted to furnish the supplies fails or refuses to do so.
AR Code § 18-42-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-107. Discharge of laborer before expiration of contract

 If any employer, without good cause, shall dismiss a laborer prior to the expiration of his or her contract, unless by agreement, he or she shall be liable to the laborer for the full amount that would have been due him or her at the expiration thereof, and the laborer shall be entitled to the lien provided in § 18-42-105 for the enforcement of the liability.
AR Code § 18-42-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-108. Abandonment by employee

 If any laborer, without good cause, shall abandon his or her employer before the expiration of his or her contract, he or she shall be liable to his or her employer for the full amount of any account he or she may owe his or her employer and shall forfeit to his or her employer all wages or share of crop due him or her, or which might become due him or her, from his or her employer.
AR Code § 18-42-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-109. Proceedings to enforce liens

 Proceedings for the enforcement of liens under this chapter are governed in the circuit court by the law regulating mechanics' liens.
AR Code § 18-42-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 42 - Liens of Employers and Employees Under Contract|§ 18-42-110. Lien of employer on crop when no written contract

 (a) When no written contract is made under this chapter, the employer shall have a lien upon that portion of the crop going to the employee for any debt incident to making and gathering the crop owing to the employer by the employee without any necessity for recording any contract of writing giving the lien.  (b)  (1) In such case, no mortgage or conveyance of any part of the crop made by the person cultivating the land of another shall have validity unless made with the consent of the employer or owner of the land or crop, and the consent must be endorsed upon the mortgage or conveyance.  (2) However, no endorsement shall bind the party making it to pay the debt unless expressly so stipulated.
AR Code § 18-43-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-101. Lien for production of labor

 All laborers who shall perform work and labor for any person under a written or verbal contract shall have an absolute lien on the production of their labor for the work and labor if unpaid for it.
AR Code § 18-43-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-102. Lien on object, etc., worked on — Liability of purchasers

 (a)  (1) Laborers who perform work and labor on any object, thing, material, or property shall have an absolute lien on the object, thing, material, or property for labor done and performed, subject to prior liens and landlord's liens for rent and supplies.  (2) These liens may be enforced within the same time and in the same manner provided for by law to enforce laborer's liens on the production of labor done and performed.    (b) When the object, thing, material, or property on which a lien exists as provided for in subsection (a) of this section has been sold, transferred, or disposed of before the lien has been liquidated or released, the purchaser thereof, with notice of the lien, the material, thing, object, or property so sold, transferred, or disposed of shall be liable to the amount of the lien, or so much thereof as may be necessary to liquidate the liens mentioned in subsection (a) of this section.
AR Code § 18-43-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-103. Miner's or quarry worker's lien

 (a) Any person working in any mines in the State of Arkansas or in any quarries, either stone or marble, shall have a lien on the output of any such mines or quarries for the amount due for his or her work. In addition thereto, his or her lien shall attach to all the machinery, tools, and implements used in quarrying or mining.  (b) These liens shall be enforced in the manner provided for the enforcement of laborers' liens.
AR Code § 18-43-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-104. Time liens take effect

 Liens under the provisions of §§ 18-43-101, 18-43-105 — 18-43-110, and 18-43-112 — 18-43-117 are in full force and effect from and after the time the labor is performed.
AR Code § 18-43-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-105. Time to commence actions — Settlement

 (a) Proceedings under this section and §§ 18-43-101, 18-43-104, 18-43-106 — 18-43-110, and 118-43-112 — 18-43-117 shall be commenced within eight (8) months after the work is done.  (b) However, the employer may bring the laborer to settlement before a proper officer any time after the labor is performed by giving the laborer or his or her agent ten (10) days' notice.
AR Code § 18-43-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-106. Filing of sworn statement

 (a)  (1) Every person who has a lien as provided in this section and §§ 18-43-101, 18-43-104, 18-43-105, 18-43-107—18-43-110, and 18-43-112—18-43-117 and wishes to avail himself or herself of the lien by an action before a court having jurisdiction.  (2)  (A) The claimant shall make a sworn statement of the amount due after all just credits are given, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, and state the kind of service, and for whom rendered, materials furnished, etc. The statement shall also contain a list of land, property, crops, or other productions of his or her labor charged.  (B) The truth of the sworn statement may be put in issue as in cases of attachment.      (b) The justice of the peace shall keep the statement on file and shall enter a brief of the case on his or her judgment docket.
AR Code § 18-43-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-107. Notice of action

 (a)  (1) The party initiating the action shall cause notice to be given to the defendant in the usual way.  (2) However, if the defendant is a nonresident, the notice will be given by at least two (2) insertions in the county newspaper or by posting three (3) notices, two (2) in the most public places in the township where the property is and the other at the county clerk's office, to appear and show cause why judgment shall not be rendered and the property sold.    (b) Notice shall be given at least ten (10) days before the day of trial and must be accompanied by a copy of the sworn statement of the plaintiff.
AR Code § 18-43-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-108. Proceedings for larger amounts

 When the amount exceeds three hundred dollars ($300), the proceeding will be the same as described for smaller amounts, except the plaintiff shall make a sworn statement before the clerk of the circuit court, and there shall be thirty (30) days' notice given to the defendant before the day of trial.
AR Code § 18-43-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-109. Officer to take charge of property

 At the same time the notice is given to the defendant, the sheriff or constable shall take charge of the property as described in the statement of the plaintiff and hold it subject to the decision of the court, as in cases of attachment.
AR Code § 18-43-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-110. Jury trial

 Either plaintiff or defendant may, by requesting the court, have the case tried by a competent jury of six (6) persons.
AR Code § 18-43-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-111. Laborer allowed attorney's fee

 When a laborer who has filed a lien for wages gives notice thereof to the debtor or owner of the property, which has been subjected to the lien in writing sent by registered or certified mail, and the claim has not been paid within twenty (20) days from the date of the mailing and the laborer is required to sue for the enforcement of his or her claim for wages, the court shall allow the laborer a reasonable attorney's fee in addition to other relief to which he or she may be entitled.
AR Code § 18-43-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-112. Sale of property

 If the amount adjudged to be due is not paid, with the cost of suit, on the day of trial, then the sheriff or constable shall immediately advertise the property charged for sale at public auction and sell it in not less than fifteen (15) days nor more than twenty-five (25) days from the date the judgment is rendered.
AR Code § 18-43-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens|Chapter 43 - Laborers' Liens Generally|§ 18-43-113. Execution on judgment

 In all cases in which the property charged does not sell for enough to satisfy the judgment rendered, with all costs of suit, in favor of the claimant, execution may issue upon the judgment in the same manner as an ordinary judgment at law against any other property of the defendant.