West Virginia Code Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale § 55-2-9. Effect of acknowledgment by personal representative or joint contractor

No acknowledgment or promise by any personal representative of a decedent, or by one of two or more joint contractors, shall charge the estate of such decedent, or charge any other of such contractors, in any case in which, but for such acknowledgment or promise, the decedent's estate or another contractor could have been protected under the sixth section of this article.