Section 11-33-75 - Death of defendant does not abate action

If the defendant dies after service of the writ of attachment, the action shall not thereby be abated, but may be prosecuted to judgment, sale, transfer, and final determination as if the defendant's death had not occurred; and all proceedings and conveyances in such case shall be as valid and effectual in law as if had and made in the lifetime of defendant.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 56, art. 4 (28); 1857, ch. 52, art. 39; 1871, § 1486; 1880, § 2466; 1892, § 161; 1906, § 166; Hemingway's 1917, § 158; 1930, § 156; 1942, § 2712.