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Pennsylvania · Through 2026-08-03 (Statute Update stamp, 42 Pa.C.S.)

42 Pa.C.S. § 8142: Endorsement of time.

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  1. Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
  2. PART VII CIVIL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
  3. CHAPTER 81 JUDGMENTS AND OTHER LIENS
  4. SUBCHAPTER C PRIORITY OF LIENS

(a) Recorder of deeds.--The recorder of deeds shall endorse upon each mortgage and defeasible deed and on the record thereof, the time when each is left for record.

(b) Recorded verdicts, etc.--The person who records a verdict or a judgment or other order rendered in open court shall endorse on the record thereof the time it was recorded.

(c) Orders signed by a judge.--The judge who signs a judgment or other order shall endorse thereon the time he signed it.

(d) Writs and amicable judgments.--The office of the clerk of the court of common pleas shall endorse upon:

(1) Each instrument on which an amicable judgment is entered or which otherwise creates a lien against real property, the time it was left for entry or filing.

(2) Each writ creating a lien against real property, the time it was issued.

(e) Docket entries.--The office of the clerk of the court of common pleas shall note on the dockets in such office where each verdict, judgment, order, instrument or writ creating a lien against real property is entered, the time it was recorded, rendered, left for filing, or issued.

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