Mobile Drug Co. v. McCullough

The order to revive the judgment did no more than reinvest the plaintiff with the right to have execution on that original judgment.

The statutes are that the assignee of a judgment or decree may by scire facias have the same revived in his name, as provided by statute (section 7870, Code); that there is presumption of satisfaction of said original judgment or decree after the lapse of 10 years “from the rendition of same without issue of execution,” etc. (section 7871, Code); that “no scire facias shall issue to revive a judgment or decree after the lapse of 20 years from its rendition”…