State ex rel. West v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lafayette Court of Common Pleas. A “bond” is a sealed instrument. (1 Bouv. Law Die. 200 ; 2 Serg. & R. 502 ; 1 Baldw. 120 ; 2 Porter, 19 ; 1 Blackf. 241; Harper, 434 ; 6 Vern. 40.) Sir William Blackstone defines a bond to be a deed. (2 Blackst.
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Appeal from Lafayette Court of Common Pleas. A “bond” is a sealed instrument. (1 Bouv. Law Die. 200 ; 2 Serg. & R. 502 ; 1 Baldw. 120 ; 2 Porter, 19 ; 1 Blackf. 241; Harper, 434 ; 6 Vern. 40.) Sir William Blackstone defines a bond to be a deed. (2 Blackst. Com. 340 ; Drake on Attach., § 125; Homan v. Brinckerhoff, 1 Denio, 184; Rockefeller v. Hoysradt, 2 Hill, 616; Drake on Attach., § 124; icl., § 121; id., § 137; Walker v. Keile, 8 Mo. 301-2 ; Glasscock v. Glass-cock & Dodd, 8 Mo. 577.) A sheriff ’s deed without actual seal, and without scrawl by way of seal, is no deed. (Morean v.…
1Opinion of the CourtBliss, Judge
The defendant Thompson sued out a writ of attachment against the relator, West, under section 26 of the landlord and tenant act (Wagu. Stat. 881-2), and with the other defendants executed an instrument purporting to be a bond, as required by the section, but failed to seal the same. Upon a plea in abatement, West obtained judgment against him, and now brings suit upon the bond, and the chief defense is that it is no bond. The question is thus presented whether a statutory instrument purporting upon its face to be a bond, but without any sea.1 or scrawl, or other device adopted as a seal, can…
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