Hussey v. Danforth’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 1951
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Conner v. Long · Stockwell v. Silloway · Dusenbury v. . Hoyt
Most-quoted passages
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““It has been the practice for the debtor to deliver to the jailer, when he surrenders himself into custody, either an attested copy of the execution and return thereon, or of the bond, and he would not be obliged to receive him without one or the other, but there is no statute requiring these as prerequisites, . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berticelli v. Huard
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