11-9-131 - Execution not to be issued within ten days.
§ 11-9-131. Execution not to be issued within ten days.
An execution shall not issue on any judgment of a justice of the peace until ten days after its rendition, unless the party recovering therein shall make and file an affidavit that he believes he will be in danger of losing his debt or demand by such delay, in which case execution shall issue immediately; but the opposite party shall not be deprived of his right of appeal within the time prescribed.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 50, art. 2 (17); 1857, ch. 58, art. 21; 1871, § 1317; 1880, § 2207; 1892, § 2414; 1906, § 2743; Hemingway's 1917, § 2242; 1930, § 2091; 1942, § 1825.