38 Me. 595
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 1, 1854
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1854-07-01
On Eapts Agreed. Debt, on a poor debtor’s relief bond. The principal defendant cited the plaintiff before two justices and disclosed one clock, and an execution in his favor of §20; and no appraisal was made of the demand. No-oath was administered to the debtor to make true answers,, until after the disclosure was reduced to writing and signed by him.
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Decided 1854-07-01
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1946
6 state decisions
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¶1— The principal debtor disclosed property which he did not cause to be appraised as the statute requires.
¶2According to the facts agreed, a default must be entered. But he was allowed to take the poor debtor’s oath by two justices, &c., and the damages must be assessed according to the provisions of the statute of 1848, c. 85.
¶3Defaulted, — the damages to be assessed as^provided by statute of 1848, c. 85.