Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact 9th section of chapter 182
of the Code of 18738, in relation to the enforcement of judgment
liens. ‘

Approved February 20, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the ninth
section of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 9. The lien of any judgment, for any amount, may always
be enforced in a court of equity; but if the judgment, the
lien of which is sought to be enforced, be for a sum not of
greater amount than twenty dollars, exclusive of interest
and costs, said court shall not entertain a bill for the said
purpose, unless it appear that sixty days before the institu-
tion of the suit, the judgment debtor, or his personal repre-
sentative, and the owner of the land on which the judgment
is a lien, or, in the case of a non-resident, his agent or attor-
ney, had notice that the suit would be instituted, if the judg-
ment was not paid within that time. Wherever the suit is
brought to enforce the lien of a judgment for a sum not of
greater amount than twenty dollars, exclusive of interest
and costs, the attorney’s fee to be taxed, shall not exceed five
dollars. If it appears to such court that the rents and profits
of the real estate subject to the lien will not satisfy the judg-
ment in five years, the court may decree the said estate, or
any part thereof, to be sold and the proceeds applied to the
discharge of the judgment.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.