Money may be taken on execution, and paid to the creditor; bank notes and other evidences of debt, issued by any moneyed corporation and circulated as money, may be taken on execution, and paid to the creditor at their par value, if he will accept of them; otherwise they may be sold at auction like other chattels.
Source. RS 194:2. CS 207:2. GS 217:1. GL 236:1. PS 232:1. PL 344:1. RL 400:1.