39 Pa. Stat. § 257

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 257 - Exceptions

Provided, That if the petitioner shall be in custody or confinement at the time of such order, by virtue of process issued upon any judgment obtained against him in an action founded upon actual force, or upon actual fraud or deceit, or in an action for libel or slander, malicious prosecution or conspiracy, or in an action for seduction or criminal conversation, where the damages found by the jury shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars; or if such petitioner shall be afterwards arrested by virtue of process issued upon any such judgment obtained against him previously to such order, he shall not be entitled to be discharged from such imprisonment or arrest until he shall have been in actual confinement during a term of at least sixty days.

39 P.S. § 257

1836, June 16, P.L. 729, § 17.