As Amended
SEC. 11-5-97. Lien on land sold on credit.
All land sold under decree of the chancery court shall be held liable and subject to a lien for the unpaid purchase money therefor as if a mortgage had been executed by the purchaser and duly recorded; and said lien shall exist until actual payment of the purchase money, or until, by order of the court or chancellor, the same shall be discharged.
SOURCES: Codes, 1871, Sec. 1150; 1880, Sec. 2048; 1892, Sec. 602; 1906, Sec. 652; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 414; 1930, Sec. 459; 1942, Sec. 1379.