Pennsylvania Act 1876-31 — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, APPEALS FROM

Act text

AN ACT

Regulating appeals from the judgment of justices of the peace and aldermen in this commonwealth, for the wages of manual labor, and prescribing the effect of voluntary assignments upon claims for the wages of labor, secured by an act for the better protection of the wages of mechanics, miners, laborers and others, approved April ninth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Compiler's Note: Section 29a) of Act 53 of 1978 provided that Act 31 is repealed except for section 2 which was saved from repeal.

Section 2. Collection of mechanics' claims

No voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors, shall operate so as to hinder, delay or prevent for a longer period than thirty days from the time of such assignment, the collection or enforcement of any of the claims for the wages of labor secured and protected by the act for the better protection of the wages of mechanics, miners, laborers and others, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, or its supplements; and said claimants may, after the expiration of thirty days from the date of such assignment, enforce the collection of their claims in the same manner and by means of the same remedies that they might have done had no such assignment been made. 1876, April 20, P.L. 43, Sec. 2.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.