5-1301 - How interest calculated.

§ 5-1301. How  interest  calculated.  Whenever,  in  any statute, act,  deed, written or verbal contract, or in any public or private instrument  whatever, any certain rate of interest is or shall be mentioned, and  no  period  of  time  is  stated  for  which  such rate is to be calculated,  interest shall be calculated at the rate mentioned, by the year, in  the  same  manner as if the words "per annum" or "by the year" had been added  to such rate.