Chap. 157.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1 and 44 of Chapter
171 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Rule Days for County and
Corporation Courts, and Declaring When Office Judgments shail be Final.

Approved March 21, 1871.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections one
and forty-four of chapter one hundred and seventy-one of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended, and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

“(§ 1. In the clerk’s office of every cirouit, county, and cor-
poration court, rules shall be held on the first Monday in every
mouth, except when a term of a circuit court or a term of a
county or corporation court happens to commence on the first
Monday in a month, or either of the two following days, or on
the preceding Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or
Saturday, the rules which otherwise would have 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 Monday before the com-
mencement 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 preceeding the
commencement of the term of such court.”

Ҥ 44, Every judgment entered in the office in a case
wherein there is no order for an inquiry of damages, and every
non-suit or dismission entered therein, shall, if not previously
set aside, become a final judgment ; if the case be ina 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 and have
the same effect, by way of lien 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 in-
terest thereon from the time it became payable (or commenced

bearing interest) till payment, unless it be in such action as 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.