Austin v. Kinsman
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
BEFORE JOHNSON, OH., AT ORANGEBURG, FEBRUARY, 1867. The decree of his Honor, the Chancellor, is as follows : Johnson, Ch. On the 2d day of October, 1862, the complainant sold and conveyed to the defendant a tract of land containing two hundred and ninety acres, lying in the district aforesaid, together with certain negroes, cattle, horses, &c., thereon, for the prices stated in the schedule, filed with the bill and marked “ A,” amounting in the aggregate to the sum of seven…
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BEFORE JOHNSON, OH., AT ORANGEBURG, FEBRUARY, 1867. The decree of his Honor, the Chancellor, is as follows : Johnson, Ch. On the 2d day of October, 1862, the complainant sold and conveyed to the defendant a tract of land containing two hundred and ninety acres, lying in the district aforesaid, together with certain negroes, cattle, horses, &c., thereon, for the prices stated in the schedule, filed with the bill and marked “ A,” amounting in the aggregate to the sum of seven thousand seven hundred dollars, two thousand dollars of which was paid, at the time, in Confederate Treasury notes, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe opinion of tbe Court was delivered by
Inglis, A. J.
Tbe defendant, Kinsman, by bis promissory note, to enforce tbe mortgage security for the payment of which note this suit has been brought, undertook to pay to the plaintiff on the 1st October, 1861, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. “Dollar” has a known legal meaning ascertained by statute, as much so as any other word or form of expression designating or having reference to a standard of measurement prescribed and established by law. (Vide Hockin vs. Cooke, 4 Ter. Rep. 311.) It is a silver coin of a fixed weight and fineness,…
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