1274 SALES AND NOTICES. [ART. 83.
value, any claim or debt against any resident thereof for the pur-
pose or with the intent to deprive such person of the right to have,
his personal earnings or property exempt from application to the
payment of his debts, according to the provisions of this code,
where the creditor and debtor and the person or corporation
owing the money intended to be reached by such proceedings are
within the jurisdiction of the courts or justices of the peace of
this State; and the person sending, assigning or transferring any
such claim for the purpose or with the intent aforesaid, shall be
liable in an action of debt to the person from whom any such
debt or claim shall have been collected by attachment or other-
wise outside of the courts of this State, for the full amount of the
debt, interest and costs so collected, and the defendant therein
shall not be entitled to the benefit of the exemption laws of this
State upon any process of execution issued upon any judgment
recovered in any such action.
1888, ch. 174.
16. In any such action proof of the fact of such sending,
assigning or transferring any such claim by the defendant shall be-
prima facie evidence of the intent of the said defendant to evade
the provisions of this code exempting the property and wages of
debtors from execution.
Ibid
17. A copy of the record of the justice of the peace of the-
State in which said attachment or other proceedings were brought
shall be complete evidence in all suits, instituted under the two
preceding sections, of all facts of said attachment or other pro-
ceedings instituted outside of this State, as shown by said record;
and said record shall also be complete evidence of any assignment
of said claim to the plaintiff in said attachment proceedings by
the defendant which the said record may show; provided, said
record shall be certified to by the justice of the peace before
whom said attachment or other proceedings were brought, and a
certificate of the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which
said justice may act attached certifying that the said justice of the
peace was duly authorized to act in said county.
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