An agreement for a valuable consideration never to enforce a judgment or execution shall release the judgment or execution.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 3587; Code 1868, § 3610; Code 1873, § 3660; Code 1882, § 3660; Civil Code 1895, § 5445; Civil Code 1910, § 6050; Code 1933, § 39-604.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 30 Am. Jur. 2d, Executions and Enforcement of Judgments, § 249 et seq.
C.J.S.- 33 C.J.S., Executions, § 233.
ALR.
- Failure to revive judgment against a number jointly, as to some of them, as making applicable the rule that a release of one is a release of all, 160 A.L.R. 678.
Interest on consideration returned or tendered as condition of setting aside release or compromise, 53 A.L.R.2d 749.
Validity of release from civil liability where release is executed by person while incarcerated, 86 A.L.R.3d 1230.
Validity and effect, as between former spouses, of agreement releasing parent from payment of child support provided for in an earlier divorce decree, 100 A.L.R.3d 1129.