Debtors (Ireland) Act, 1840

Judgment debts to carry interest.

26. Every judgment debt due upon any judgment not confessed or recovered for any penal sum for securing principal and interest shall carry interest at the rate of four pounds per centum per annum from the time of entering up the judgment, or from the time of the commencement of this Act in cases of judgments then entered up and not carrying interest until the same shall be satisfied; and such interest may be levied under a writ of execution on such judgment.