Buckey v. Snouffer’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1986
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
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““Whatever may be the law elsewhere, in this state when a debtor applied for the benefit of the insolvent laws under Acts 1805, c. 110, and its supplements, his property came under the custody of the law for the benefit of his creditors. » * * And it being well settled that goods in the custody of the law are not liable to be distrained, it follows that the distress relied upon by the appellee cannot be sustained; the property at the time having been beyond its reach. That a claim for rent is of peculiar character, and may be recovered in full, when other creditors of the tenant will be allowed a dividend only of his estate, cannot be denied. But. we do not understand this to be in consequence of the rent being, per se, a lien on goods found on the premises. It is because the law allows the landlord to collect his rent by seizing the property as a pledge, to be dealt with according to its requirements. * * * The legislation upon the subject indicates that rent was never considered as possessing, the attributes of a lien. If so, why was it declared by the statute of Anne that sheriffs, levying executions, should satisfy one year’s rent? If rent was a lien before the statute, the property passed to the sheriff, incumbered with the landlord’s claim; and the plaintiff in the execution could have had satisfaction only after payment of the rent. * * * We do not think that this view of the subject deprives the landlord of any peculiar right. The law has granted him a remedy enjoyed b”
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