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Decree not to be renewed till affidavit made by plaintiff, &c.
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140. No decree shall be at any time renewed until the plaintiff in such decree, or one of the plaintiffs, if there be more than one, or, in case of the death of a sole plaintiff, then his or her personal representatives, or one of them, and, in case of more than one plaintiff, the surviving plaintiff, or one of the representatives of a deceased plaintiff, shall have made affidavit before the said assistant barrister for the county in which such decree was made or pronounced in open court held as aforesaid for such division; which affidavit . . . shall state the names of the parties in the original cause, the sum for which such decree was made, and the sum then remaining due or unpaid to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, or their personal representatives, on the foot of the said decree, after all just allowances: Provided that if the person swearing such affidavit was a party in the original cause as personal representative to some other person, or if such person so swearing shall seek to renew any decree or dismiss as executor or administrator of one of the parties in the original cause, it shall be sufficient for such person to swear that such sum still remains due, after all just allowances, as he or she verily believes: . . .
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