Sources: Codes, 1871, § 1117; 1880, § 1963; 1892, § 1815; 1906, § 1991; Hemingway's 1917, § 1656; 1930, § 1602; 1942, § 498; Laws,  1946, ch. 335, § 1; Laws, 1992, ch. 383, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1992.