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11-45-5 - Payment of judgment or decree against the state.

§ 11-45-5. Payment of judgment or decree against the state.
  

A judgment or decree against the state shall not be satisfied except by an appropriation therefor by the legislature, and an execution shall not be issued against the state. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1871, § 1580; 1880, § 2644; 1892, § 4250; 1906, § 4802; Hemingway's 1917, § 3166; 1930, § 5999; 1942, § 4389.