Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 9871. Judgment docket; contents; fee for entries

It shall be the duty of each of the prothonotaries of the several courts of common pleas, district courts, and circuit courts,  1 in this commonwealth, to make, prepare and keep a docket, to be called the judgment docket, in which said docket no case shall be entered until after there shall have been a judgment or award of arbitrators in such case, and into which shall be copied the entry of every judgment and every award of arbitrators, immediately after the same shall have been entered; which entries, so to be made in the said judgment docket, shall be so made that one shall follow the other in the order of time in which the said judgments and awards shall have been rendered, entered, or filed, as aforesaid; and the entries in each case in said judgment docket shall particularly state and set forth the names of the parties, the term and number of the case, and the date, and in case the judgment shall be for a sum certain, the amount of the judgment or award; and when any judgment shall be revived by scire facias, or otherwise, or when any execution shall issue in any case, a note thereof shall be made in the proper judgment docket, at the place where the other entries in such case may have been made; and whenever any transcript of any testatum execution, or any transcript, shewing  2 the balance appearing to be due, from any executor, administrator, or guardian, or from any collector of any township, ward or district, shall be delivered to any of the said prothonotaries, the docket entries made in such case shall be copied into the said judgment docket, in like manner as judgments and awards are herein directed to be copied; and the fee for all the entries made in each case, in the judgment docket, shall be twelve and a half cents, and no more.