TITLE 10
Courts and civil procedureProcedure in particular actions
CHAPTER 10-13
Relief of Poor Debtors
SECTION 10-13-24
§ 10-13-24 Assignment for benefit of
creditors upon administration of oath.
Whenever the oath as provided in this chapter shall be administered to any
defendant, under the provisions of §§ 10-13-14 10-13-23 he or
she shall then and there make an assignment of all his or her estate, real and
personal, not exempted from attachment by law, to some responsible inhabitant
of this state, his or her heirs and assigns, to be approved by the magistrate
administering the oath, in trust for the benefit of all his or her creditors in
proportion to their demands, and a copy of the assignment shall be filed by the
assignee in the office of the clerk of the court issuing the execution.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 260, § 22; G.L. 1909, ch. 326, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch.
377, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 563, § 22; G.L. 1956, § 10-13-24; P.L.
1997, ch. 326, § 96.)