Miller v. Marigny’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Where the creditor of an Insolvent who has been placed upon the bilan, and duly notified thereof, afterwards sues the insolvent for the same debt, and obtains a judgment by default, which he regularly confirms, it is inadmissible to say that such judgment is absolutely null and void. The insolvent, when cited, should have pleaded his cessio bonoram, and, if his creditor could show no legal cause to take the case out of the usual category, the plea would have prevailed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Muser v. Kern