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Judgement in Spain?

In Spain, and as many other countries, a judgment is an official decision of a Spain Court which will try to resolve the dispute between two or more parties regarding a Spanish or international lawsuit.

That judgment will be listed in the official Spanish Court records and will  grant to the creditor the legal right to collect on the debt from the debtor in Spain                ( Spanish or foreign citizen ) by placing a judgment lien on his properties, garnishing the debtor's incomes, or to attach the debtor's personal properties.

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A judgment lien is a claim against the real estates of the debtor:

That real estate can not be sold until the judgment is satisfied. Attachment is the physical seizure of property owned by the debtor by a law officer, usually a bailiff who usually sells the debtors personal property at public auctions to satisfy the judgment.

A default judgment results from the defendant's failure to appear in Court or from one party's failure to take appropriate procedural steps.

A deficiency judgment is rendered in favor of the creditor for the difference between the amount of the indebtedness and the sum derived from the sale of the debtor's property held in order to repay the debt; probably the most common deficiency judgment results from the repossession of a car.