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In debt, or scire facias on judgment payment may be pleaded in bar.
So in debt on bond with condition or defeasance: tho' the payment not made strictly according thereto.
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XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of Michaelmas term, where any action of debt shall be brought upon any single bill, or where any action of debt or scire facias shall be brought upon judgment, if the defendant hath paid the money due upon such bill or judgment, such payment shall and may be pleaded in bar of any such action or suit; and where an action of debt is brought upon any bond, which hath a condition or defeazance to make void the same upon payment of a lesser sum at a day or place certain, if the obligor, his heirs, executors, or administrators, have before the action brought paid to the obligee, his executors or administrators, the principal and interest due by the defeazance or condition of such bond, though such payment was not made strictly according to the condition or defeazance, yet it shall and may nevertheless be pleaded in bar of such action, and shall be as effectual bar thereof, as if the money had been paid at the day and place according to the condition or defeazance, and had been so pleaded.
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