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13 Johns. 378

Scott v. Shaw

New York Supreme Court

Decided August 15, 1816

New York Supreme Court · decided 1816-08-15

<p>t Where- $• <Iáféndant has been taken under á tu sa. and discharged • from custody on the ‘ ground that no previous' ,/?, fa. had been issued on the judgment, (there be- " ing special bail in .the action) the' sheriff is, • notwithstanding, entitled to poundage5;as he has incurred-the risk of • being made liable ifor san escape,! in án ■ ^.action for which Jie could hot have availed •himself of the • irregularity as a defence. '•</p> <p>Arid it makes no difference ’ -that the defend- • antafter his dischargeconfessed a new judgment to the plaintiff for the amount of the former judgment, pn which satisfaction was entered} and that a ca. sa. having '•been regularly issued óa.' the second judgment, the sheriff had been paid his . poundage thereon. '</p>

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Decided 1816-08-15

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Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1901

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Spencer, J.,

¶1delivered ..the opinion of the.,courts

¶2" The act, prohibiting the issuing .a ca¿ sa.' (1. N. R. L. 502.) upon 'judgments-rendered, .in- actions wherein'special bail has been filed,: until after’a fi. fa. does not render-a ca. sa. issued , before a fi. fa. void; it is only voidable at the. instance of the - party against whom it is thus issued.- The sheriff certainly in.- !. curred the- risk of liability for an escape on the first ca. sa., for he could not set up, in an action-against him- for an escape, that the ca¿ sa. .had issued!¡regularly the sheriff therefore, gained . -a- perfecttitle to. his-poundage, unaffected by the subsequent discharge of the prisoner." It is ’ no answer to, the' sheriff’s claim *379for poundage, that he has received poundage upon another judgment between the same parties, and for the same original debt; it is, legally speaking, a new debt, as far as the sheriff is concerned. The allowance of poundage is for the risk incurred, and that risk is in proportion to the amount of the sum to he levied, and as the sheriff was exposed to. two risks, ho is entitled to the poundage on both executions»

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