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47 Cal. 602

Cross v. Zane

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1874

California Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01

In 1869 the plaintiff obtained a judgment against the defendant, under which certain real estate, standing of record in the name of Main & Winchester, was levied upon, and an interest which the plaintiff believed the defendant had in the land, was purchased by the plaintiff in satisfaction of the judgment.

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Decided 1874-07-01

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Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1951

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By the Court:

¶1If the controversy here were to be determined by the application of the general principles of law, there would certainly be found to be an irreconcilable conflict between the adjudicated cases upon the point. But, as we construe the statute (Pr. Act, Sec. 237; Code Civ. Proc. 708), the case is covered by the provision that the original judgment may be revived “when the property sold was not subject to execution and sale.'’ The statute, being remedial in its character, is to receive a liberal construction, and we think that where, as here, the property sold was not the property of the defendant in execution, but wholly that of a stranger, it amounted to a sale of property not subject to execution and sale, within the intent of the act.

¶2Judgment reversed and cause remanded. Remittitur forthwith.

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