§55-8-5. Validity of Writing Payable to Person Dead at Time of Execution
A bond, note or other writing to a person or persons who, or some of whom, are dead at the time of its execution, shall be as valid as if such person or persons were then alive, and may be proceeded on in the same manner as if it had been executed in the lifetime […]
§55-8-6. Liability of Personal Representative of Deceased Joint Judgment Debtor, Obligor, Promissor or Partner
The representative of one bound with another, either jointly or as a partner, by judgment, bond, note or otherwise, for the payment of a debt, or the performance or forbearance of an act, or for any other thing, and dying in the lifetime of the latter, may be charged in the same manner as such […]
§55-8-7. Action Against Makers, Drawers, Endorsers, Acceptors, Assignors or Absolute Guarantors
(a) The holder of any note, check, draft, bill of exchange or other instrument of any character, whether negotiable or not or any person entitled to judgment for money on contract, in any action at law or proceeding by notice for judgment on motion thereon, may join all or any intermediate number of the persons […]
§55-8-8. Joinder of Personal Representative of Decedent as Defendant in Action Under §55-8-7; Judgment to Affect Only Estate of Decedent
In every action or motion in which a decedent, if living, could be joined as defendant with another or others under section seven of this article, his personal representative may be joined with him or them, or with the personal representative of any one or more of them. In every such case in which a […]
§55-8-9. Action by Assignee in Own Name; Defenses and Setoff; Joinder of Claims
The assignee of any bond, note, account, or writing, not negotiable, or other chose in action arising out of contract or injury to personal or real property, may maintain thereupon any action in his own name, without the addition of "assignee," which the original obligee, promisee, payee, contracting party, or owner of such chose in […]
§55-8-10. Assignee Entitled to Recover From Assignor; Defenses Allowed
Any assignee mentioned in section nine of this article may recover from any assignor of such writing, whether joined as defendants under section seven of this article, or proceeded against separately, but a remote assignor shall have the benefit of the same defenses as if the suit had been instituted by his immediate assignee.
§55-8-11. Limitation on Jurisdiction of Equity as to Suit by Assignee
A court of equity shall not have jurisdiction of a suit upon a bond, note, or writing, by an assignee or holder thereof, unless it appear that the plaintiff had not an adequate remedy thereon at law.
§55-8-12. Third Party May Sue on Covenant or Promise Made for His Sole Benefit
If a covenant or promise be made for the sole benefit of a person with whom it is not made, or with whom it is made jointly with others, such person may maintain, in his own name, any action thereon which he might maintain in case it had been made with him only, and the […]
§55-8-13. Action of Account
An action of account may be maintained against the personal representative of any guardian or receiver; and also by one joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener or his personal representative against the other, or against the personal representative of the other, for receiving more than his just share or proportion.
§55-8-14. Agreements to Indemnify Against Sole Negligence of the Indemnitee, His Agents or Employees Against Public Policy; No Action Maintainable Thereon; Exceptions
A covenant, promise, agreement or understanding in or in connection with or collateral to a contract or agreement entered into on or after the effective date of this section, relative to the construction, alteration, repair, addition to, subtraction from, improvement to or maintenance of any building, highway, road, railroad, water, sewer, electrical or gas distribution […]