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§ 37-2-14 NMSA 1978

[Revivor in name of plaintiff's representative or successor; revivor on both sides.]

Laws 1884, ch. 5, § 14; C.L. 1884, § 2151; C.L. 1897, § 3100; Code 1915, § 4277; C.S. 1929, § 105-1215; 1941 Comp., § 19-714; 1953 Comp., § 21-7-14.

An order to revive an action in the names of the representatives or successor of a plaintiff may be made forthwith, but shall not be made without the consent of the defendant, after the expiration of one year from the time the order might have been first made; but where the defendant shall also have died, or his power have ceased in the meantime, the order of revivor on both sides may be made in the period limited in the last section [ 37-2-13 NMSA 1978].

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.