11-33-79 - Judgment by default. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 11-33-79. Judgment by default.
 

If the defendant shall not appear and plead to the action, in pursuance of notice, the court, as in other cases, shall give judgment against him by default, and award a writ of inquiry if necessary; but on such judgment by default, unless granted on the service of summons executed in this state, no execution shall issue except against the property on which the attachment has been served, or against a garnishee who shall have money or property in his hands belonging to the defendant. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 56, art. 4 (25); 1857, ch. 52, art. 21; 1871, § 1477; 1880, § 2467; 1892, § 163; 1906, § 168; Hemingway's 1917, § 160; 1930, § 158; 1942, § 2714.