Court Opinion

ID: 9558295
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:06:02.820412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:39.949578
License: Public Domain

BISTLINE, Justice,
specially concurring.
Having concurred in the opinion for the Court, I write only to express the caveat that although a recorded lien casts a lien cloud over all of the defendant’s real property and interests therein in the county (or counties) where recorded, not only must the plaintiff secure the issuance of a writ of execution specifically designating the legal description of the real property against which he desires the sheriff to proceed, but the writ of execution must also require that the sheriff first proceed against the personal property of the defendant before resorting to any realty. I.C. § 11-102(1). The lien created on the day of filing the judgment for record serves two important functions. One, it gives the judgment creditor security, thus enabling him, when so disposed, to not crowd his judgment debtor for payment. Two, it establishes a priority as of that date against other judgments or other encumbrances recorded subsequently.
Additionally, it must be remembered that the lien against real property which has been thus created is not — as with a materialman’s lien — judicially foreclosed all in the same process. Moreover, the judgment debtor is afforded the right, if present at the sale, to “direct the order in which property, real or personal, shall be sold, when such property consists of several known lots or parcels, or of articles which can be sold to advantage separately, and the sheriff must follow such directions.” I.C. § 11-304.