39 Pa. Stat. § 327

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 327 - Prothonotary may discharge insolvent debtors from arrest

The prothonotaries of the several courts of common pleas of this commonwealth shall be authorized and required to take security and discharge insolvent debtors from arrest, on application to them, made in as full and ample a manner as any president or associate judge of the said courts may now do by virtue of the provisions of the act of assembly, passed March 28, 1820; and also to discharge debtors destitute of property for their support, as fully and amply as any judge may now do, under the provisions of the nineteenth section of the act of March 26, 1914, entitled "An act for relief of insolvent debtors."

39 P.S. § 327

1833, March 30, P.L. 107, § 1.