In all actions to enforce a lien granted by Section 85-7-131, the defendants shall be summoned, as in other actions at law, to appear and defend the action; and in case any necessary party defendant shall be a nonresident of or absent from the state, or cannot be found, he may be made a party by publication, as in cases of nonresident or absent defendants in chancery, requiring him to appear on a day to be therein named; and in default of appearance, the same proceedings shall be had as if the defendant had been duly summoned and made default.Codes, 1857, ch. 39, art. 8; 1871, § 1611; 1880, § 1386; 1892, § 2704; 1906, § 3064; Hemingway's 1917, § 2424; 1930, § 2264; 1942, § 362.Amended by Laws, 2014, ch. 487, SB 2622, 22, eff. 4/11/2014.
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