Opinion ID: 1345990
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Heading: Enforcement and Sale

Text: ORS 18.350(1) provides that from the time of docketing a judgment    such judgment shall be a lien upon all the real property of the judgment debtor within the county where the same is docketed   . The lien attaches [f]rom the time of docketing. The docketing of the judgment gives constructive notice of the lien against the property. ORS 93.643(2). Subsequent conveyances of the real property are subject to the judgment lien. ORS 18.370. Oliver v. Wright, 47 Or. 322, 327, 83 P. 870 (1905). See also Kaston v. Storey, 47 Or. 150, 153, 80 P. 217 (1905). Two sets of statutes control the enforcement of judgment liens and mortgage liens. ORS 23.030 to 23.105 and ORS 23.410 apply to the collection of judgments by levy and execution. ORS 88.010 to 88.120 apply to the foreclosure of mortgage liens. [3] ORS Chapter 88 provides for the filing of a mortgage foreclosure suit. ORS 88.050 directs that if multiple defendants have liens on the real property being foreclosed, the court shall specify the order of priority of the liens, and enter a decree of foreclosure and sale. The court may enter a deficiency judgment in those cases in which the proceeds of sale are insufficient to pay all creditors. [4] ORS 88.060(2). ORS 88.080 concerns the sale of the foreclosed property. It provides: A decree of foreclosure shall order the mortgaged property sold. Property sold on execution issued upon a decree may be redeemed in like manner and with like effect as property sold on an execution pursuant to ORS 23.410 to 23.600, and not otherwise. A sheriff's deed for property sold on execution issued upon a decree shall have the same force and effect as a sheriff's deed issued for property sold on an execution pursuant to ORS 23.410 to 23.600. ORS 23.410 to 23.515, incorporated by reference in ORS 88.080, prescribe sale procedures for real property sold on execution of a judgment lien. ORS 23.510 provides that [a]t the time of sale, the sheriff shall give to the purchaser a certificate of the sale   . Thereafter, the sheriff returns the execution to the court, pays the proceeds of the sale to the clerk, and the court confirms the sale. ORS 23.490.