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Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 70.400 — Claims placed in hands -- Not to become interested in

70.400. Claims placed in hands -- Not to become interested in

No constable shall buy, or become interested by contract in, any claim against another put into his hands for collection. Any such purchase or contract may be relied on by a defendant in bar of a suit on such claim, or as a ground for vacating a judgment or quashing an execution thereon.

Source notes

Effective: October 1, 1942

History and annotations

Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 443.

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