Section 2. Proof required
Before any warrant shall issue for lands within the limits aforesaid, the person in whose name or for whose use such warrant is applied for, shall, in addition to the proof already required by law, prove, by a disinterested witness, whether the said lands are improved or unimproved, and if improved, the date when such improvement was commenced, that interest may be charged accordingly; which proof shall be taken, on oath or affirmation, before two justices of the peace of the county in which the lands applied for are situated. 1817, March 10, P.L. 99, 6 sm.L. 420, Sec. 2.
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.