Enforcement of judgment of circuit court against representative.

When any judgment is entered in the circuit court against any executor or administrator, as such, and an execution thereon has been returned "no property" by the sheriff or other officer of the county in which such judgment was entered, an execution may issue against the executor or administrator personally, to be levied on his goods and chattels, lands and tenements.

(Code 1852, §1923; Code 1867, §2282; Code 1876, §2620; Code 1886, §2278; Code 1896, §347; Code 1907, §2814; Code 1923, §6053; Code 1940, T. 61, §130.)