Statutes > New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 44 - Miscellaneous Civil Law Matters. > Article 5 - Gambling Debts and Losses, 44-5-1 through 44-5-14. > Section 44-5-8 - Suit before magistrate; interrogatories to defendant.

Section 44-5-8 - Suit before magistrate; interrogatories to defendant.

44-5-8. [Suit before magistrate; interrogatories to defendant.]

In all suits, under this chapter [44-5-1 to 44-5-14 NMSA 1978], before a justice of the peace [magistrate], the plaintiff may call in the defendant to answer, on oath, any interrogatory touching the case, and if the defendant refuse to answer, the same shall be taken as confessed.