These proceedings disclosed that petitioner’s property consisted of two apartment buildings in Clayton, Missouri, substantial savings and checking accounts at local banks, and some U.S. Treasury bills. Petitioner further revealed that he had disposed of most of this property in January and February of 1978, before the trial, and had used the proceeds to purchase book-entry Treasury bills. Petitioner invested approximately $205,000 in book-entry Treasury bills. In light of this information, Merrill Lynch attempted to register the judgment in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963. The clerk of the court refused to register the judgment because it was not “final by appeal.” See Abegglen v. Burnham, 94 F.Supp. 484, 486 (D.Utah 1950) (<HOLDING>); accord, Stanford v. Utley, 341 F.2d 265 (8th
holding a judgment of a district court does not become final by appeal within the meaning of the statute providing for registration of such judgments in another district until the case has been disposed of by appeal holding trial court may make a judgment final for purposes of appeal by severing the causes and parties disposed of by the judgment into a different cause holding that notice of appeal of district court opinion denying arbitration stay divested district court of jurisdiction to continue proceedings until the appeal was complete holding that order could be appealed because ajlthough the district court did not make an express finding there is no doubt that the district court intended its orders to be final judgments for purposes of appeal holding that a notice of appeal is timely when filed before final judgment is entered by the district court