§ 9-12-89.Effect of appellate proceeding on lien

This short section answers a question left open by the previous one: once an appeal concludes with an affirmance, what becomes of the lien standing tied to the trial court's judgment? The answer here is that nothing is lost. A judgment taken up to the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, and affirmed there, keeps whatever lien and whatever priority it already held — the appellate proceeding itself does not reset, weaken, or interrupt that standing.

Read together with the preceding Code section, the two provisions describe a consistent path through an appeal: the property is not bound outright while the appeal is pending, except that the defendant cannot alienate it in the meantime, and the property becomes bound again once the appellate judgment is signed. This section confirms that when the appellate result is an affirmance, the creditor loses nothing for having gone through that process — the lien and priority carry through intact.

The section addresses affirmance specifically. It does not speak to what happens if the appellate court instead reverses or modifies the trial court's judgment, leaving that scenario to be worked out under the other rules governing appeals and judgments.