Section 15-1-25 - Limitations applicable to action or scire facias against executor or administrator

An action or scire facias may not be brought against any executor or administrator upon any judgment or other cause of action against his testator or intestate, except within four years after the qualification of such executor or administrator.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, art 6 (12); 1857, ch. 57, art. 11; 1871, § 2155; 1880, § 2676; 1892, § 2745; 1906, § 3105; Hemingway's 1917, § 2469; 1930, § 2295; 1942, § 725.