1 Blackf. 246
Decided May 9, 1823
Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1823-05-09
THIS was a suit in equity, commenced in this Court on account of the interest of the circuit judge, in whose circuit the land mentioned in the bill is situate. — The bill states, that the complainant had sold the defendant a certain tract of land; had. taken no security for payment but the defendant’s bond; and had given possession without executing a conveyance.
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Decided 1823-05-09
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1893
3 state decisions
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¶1A sale of the property is decreed, according to the prayer of the bill
¶2 The taking of the bond did not discharge the lien. It is only when the security taken is intended as a substitution for the lien, nob as a mere mode of payment, that the lien is discharged. Vide Lagow et al. v. Badollet et al. and note, May term, 1826, post.