All things contained in this chapter, not restricted by their nature or by express provision to particular courts, shall be the rules of decision and proceeding in all courts whatsoever.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 53, art. 2 (100); 1857, ch. 61, art. 189; 1871, § 630; 1880, § 1585; 1892, § 629; 1906, § 687; Hemingway's 1917, § 465; 1930, § 474; 1942, § 1412.
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