849.40 Proceeding when no claim filed.—When no claim is filed in the cause within the time required the clerk shall enter a default against all persons, firms and corporations owning, claiming or having an interest in and to the property seized and the cause may then proceed in the same manner as a common-law cause after default, and final judgment shall be entered therein ex parte, except as may be herein otherwise provided.History.—s. 6, ch. 29712, 1955.