Summerside Bank v. Ramsey
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This suit was on a judgment obtained by the plaintiff •against the defendants in assumpsit, before the Supreme Court ■of the Province of Prince Edward’s Island and Dominion of Canada. The defence set up in a plea that the demand was barred by the lapse of six years, under the statute of limitations of this state. This plea was demurred to.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
That a foreign judgment is subject to the statute of limitations prevalent, by force of the lex fori, has been established by a consensus of judicial opinion. By force of the federal constitution, a judgment rendered in a state is as conclusive in the other states, with respect to the matters adjudged, as it is at the place of its rendition. Such decisions are, in all respects, true records, and in this quality are to be discriminated from the adjudications made by foreign courts. With respect to this latter class of judgments,…
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