513.070. Execution against heir to be special. - Missouri Statutes

Execution against heir to be special.

513.070. When execution shall be issued against any person,as heir or devisee, the officer to whom the same shall bedirected, shall be commanded only that of the goods and chattelswhich were of the ancestor or testator at the time of his death,he cause to be made the debt, damages and costs; and ifsufficient goods and chattels cannot be found in his county, thenthat of the real estate which was of the ancestor or testator atthe time of his death, he cause to be made the debt, damages andcosts or sum of money in such execution specified.

(RSMo 1939 § 1318, A. 1949 H.B. 2121)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1154; 1919 § 1605; 1909 § 2174