Enforcement of decree or judgment for recovery of property.

When such decree or judgment is for the recovery of real or personal property and the estate has no executor or administrator, no writ of possession or other writ for the enforcement of such decree or judgment shall issue thereon until there shall be some person duly authorized under the laws of this state to receive the possession of such property, and then such writ shall issue in favor of such person.

(Code 1876, §2627; Code 1886, §2286; Code 1896, §355; Code 1907, §2821; Code 1923, §6060; Code 1940, T. 61, §168.)