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8 N.J.L. 150

Phillips v. Phillips

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided September 15, 1825

Supreme Court of New Jersey · decided 1825-09-15

<p>1. Where a judgment is entered against a defendant upon a cognovit actionem, and is afterwards set aside by the court in which the judgment was entered, a certiorari will not lie to ’remove the proceedings into the Supreme Court.</p> <p>2. Where writ of error or certiorari is the proper remedy.</p>

Decided 1825-09-15

¶1*153In the presont case the court of common pleas when it set aside the judgment against Lott Phillips, was not acting different from the course of the common law—it was acting or professing to act according to common law principles and in a common law mode. It may be said that the court had no power to set aside the judgment, but that does not alter the case, nor does it prove that a certiorari will lie; nor does it by any means follow that because a writ of error will not lie that a certiorari will. There are a great many cases whore neither will lie, as if a court should quash a writ, set asido a judgment by default, grant or refuse a new trial, strike a count out of a declaration, change a venue, &c., 12 John. Rep. 49.

¶2The court, after taking time to deliberate, ordered the writ of certiorari issued in this case to be quashed.

¶3Writ quashed.

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