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1 U.S. 137

Shoemaker v. Shirtliffe

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1785-06

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Decided 1785-06

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¶1Practice.

¶2Execution eannot issue on a judgment entered on bond, by a warrant of attorney, until the time of payment, although there is no provision in the warrant for a stay of execution.

¶3The defendant had executed a bond, with warrant of attorney to confess judgment -to the plaintiff. The bond was payable on the 1st of September 1785 ; but there was no provision for a stay of execution, until that time, inserted in the warrant of attorney. The plaintiff issued a ft. fa., before the 1st of September, and Dallas, for the defendant, moved to set it aside.

¶4The Court

¶5were of opinion, that the warrant of attorney reciting the bond, was only an instrument subservient to it; and, consequently, ■ that the execution could not be issued, until the time given for payment was expired.(b)

¶6The execution set aside.

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