1862, c 262.
When execu-
tions or attach-
ments may
issue on judg-
ments.
Proviso.
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16. On all judgments an execution may issue, at
any time within three years after the date of such
judgment, or if there be a stay thereon, at any time
within three years after the expiration or removal
of such stay, where there has been no change of
parties to such judgments, by death or by marriage,
but executions by way of attachment may issue at
any time within twelve years from the date of said
judgment, and if more than three years have elapsed
after the date of the judgment, or expiration, or
removal of the stay thereon, the said attachments
shall be subject to the same defences by the defend-
ant as in cases of scire facias, and in cases of the
death or marriage of any plaintiff, the executor,
administrator or other person who shall be entitled
to such judgment, shall, on application to the clerk
of the court or justice of the peace having control of
the docket whereon such judgment may have been
entered, be made parties to the same and have attach-
ments or other execution, as if no such death or mar-
riage had taken place ; and in all such judgments, the
plaintiff may have more than one attachment, or other
execution to be laid in the hands of different persons
or levied on other property or effects than that taken
under the first, though the first be still outstanding.;
provided, that but one satisfaction of the debt or de-
mand shall be made, and that it shall be in the dis-
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