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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="11-402" title_number="11" title_name="Judgments" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Judgment Liens">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Land” means real property or any interest in or appurtenant to real property.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Medical debt” has the meaning stated in § 14–203.1 of the Real Property Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A complaint seeking a money judgment shall indicate whether the judgment sought is for medical debt.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A complaint seeking a money judgment for medical debt shall include the address of the primary residence of the defendant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If indexed and recorded as prescribed by the Maryland Rules, a money judgment of a court constitutes a lien to the amount and from the date of the judgment on the judgment debtor’s interest in land located in the county in which the judgment was rendered except:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For a lease from year to year or for a term of not more than five years and not renewable; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>As provided in § 14–203.1 of the Real Property Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If indexed and recorded as prescribed by the Maryland Rules, a money judgment constitutes a lien on the judgment debtor’s interest in land located in a county other than the county in which the judgment was originally entered, except:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For a lease from year to year or for a term not more than five years and not renewable; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>As provided in § 14–203.1 of the Real Property Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Promptly after the entry of an order of satisfaction or the filing of a written statement by a judgment creditor with the clerk of the court that a judgment of a court has been satisfied, the clerk of the court shall make an entry of the word “satisfied” on the horizontal line in the judgment record where the lien is indexed.</text>
  </level>
</section>
