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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0295 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KE NTUCKY.
ClIAr. 05.--AN ACT providig that certain judgnots bhall uear acC.tln in. 183.
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Sl.'. 1. Be it enaclrd iy the G.1tral /ls.secmbly of Ih/. Cm-
monmcialth of Kentdcy, That in rentlering judgments and de-
crees, in actions founded on written contracts execited with-
out this State, aid on judgments and decrees reidered without
this State, it shall he Iawful to render the judgment or decree
for accruing interest from the time the money became due by
tile written contract, or fiom the timc it shIv. appear, by the
judgment or decree sued oil, to have been due: Provilcd, That
where either party shall prove the rate of intcrest to be greater
or less than six per cent, it shall be found in damages, as now
authorized by law.
Smc. 2. That all judgments hereafter rendered heforc Jus-
tices of tie Peace, and all ij dgments and decrees hereafter
rendered in the courts of this Commonwealth, shall carry in-
terest at the rate of six per cent per annum, from the date of
the judgment or decree, unless the judgment or decree shall
hear interest by its terms from a prior day, or unless it be a
case where tie interest shall have been assessed in damages, as
provided in (ie first section; and the judgment or decree may
be entered up for tile accruing interest frora the day of reni-
dering the same; and if not so entered, the Clerk or Justice
shall endorse on the execution that it bears interest at tile rate
of six per cent per annum from the time of rendering tile
same, and stating in the endorsement the day of rcndering the
judgment or decree: Provided, That judgments in actions of
malicious prosecutions, libel and slander, and actions of tort
to the person, shall be excepted from the provisions of this act,
and shall not bear accruing interest.
Approvod, Febjruary 16, 1837.
CH.t. JOG.-AN ACT for the bencit of the widow and tiirs of Frands 11a-
gll, (JcCd.
Wint.,unrAs, It is represented that Francis ]Iagan, late of the
county of Spencer, died intestate, leaving Susannalt [lagan, tIts
widow, and Vincent liagan, E lizabeth I lagan, .Jackson I [agani
Mary Louisa Ilagan, Joseph I lagan and (titharin llagan, his
children and heirs, all of whom are minor, under the age of
twenty one years, and that he was possessed of a tract of land
containing about 2() acres, and nine slaves, many of whom
are young and unproductive, that tile said tract of land is
not susceptible of a division, alnd after taking off the widow's
dower, would leave none lit for cultivation for the support and
maintenance of the said children, and that it would redound
greitly to the advantage of the said widow and heirs of Francis
lagan, dcc. if the said tract of land and slaves could be sold,
and the proceeds of the sales vested in lands for their benefit-
Therefore,
Oi contr~tcts,
&c. out of tho
Stade.
Judgments
hereafter ren-
dered to beart
interest.
Proviso.
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