Chap. 12.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved March
twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in Relation to the
Rule days for County and Corporation Courts; and Declaring when
Office Judgments shall be final.

In force December 2%, 1871.

, 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act ap
proved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections one and forty:
four of chapter one hundred and seventy-one of the Code o:
eighteen hundred and sixty, in relation to the rule days fo!

, county and corporation courts; and declaring when office
judgments shall be final, be amended and re-enacted so as {
read as follows:

t, “81. In the clerk's office of every circuit, county, and cor

, poration court, rules shall be held on the first Monday in ever,

- month, except when a term of a circuit court, or a term of |
county or corporation court, designated for the trial of civ
cases, in which juries are required, happens to commence 01
the first Monday in a month, or either of the two followin;
days, or on the preceding Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Friday, or Saturday, the rules which otherwise would hav
been held for the said month on the first Monday, shall be held
on the last Monday in the next preceding month; and when,
in any county or corporation, the said courts shall commence
on the Monday before the first Tuesday of any month, the
rules shall, in said county or corporation, be held on the Mon-
day before the commencement of said courts. The rules may
continue three days; but when, in any case, such continuance
would interfere with the term of the court for which the rules
are held, they shall not continue in such case beyond the day
preceding the commencement of the term of such court.”

““§ 44. Every judgment entered in the office in a case where-
in there is no order for an inquiry of damages, and every non-
suit or dismission entered therem, shall, if not previously set
aside, become a final judgment; if the case be in a circuit
court of the last day of the next term, or the fifteenth day
thereof, (whichever shall happen first;) and if it be in a county
or corporation court, of the last day of the next term, desig-
nated for the trial of civil cases, in which juries are required,
and have the same effect, by way of len or otherwise, as a
judgment rendered in the court at such term. Every such
judgment for any plaintiff shall be for the principal sum due,
with interest thereon from the time it became payable (or com-
menced bearing interest) till payment, unless it be in such
action a8 is mentioned in the eleventh section of chapter one
hundred and forty-four, in which case it shall be according to
that section.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.