§6-5-465. Survival - Substitution of personal representative where no action filed.

If a claim upon which no action has been filed survives on the death of a defendant, substitution of his personal representative may be effected under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure; but final judgment must not be entered against a personal representative if he objects until after the expiration of six months from the grant of letters testamentary or of administration.

(Code 1852, §2148; Code 1867, §2544; Code 1876, §2910; Code 1886, §2606; Code 1896, §41; Code 1907, §2500; Acts 1915, No. 533, p. 605; Code 1923, §5716; Acts 1931, No. 717, p. 837; Code 1940, T. 7, §154.)