President of the Portland Bank v. President of the Maine Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of ejectment, submitted to the decision oí the Court upon the following agreement: — In this case, the parties agree that the plaintiffs claim- the land demanded by virtue of a deed from Woodbury Storer, for a valuable consideration, made, executed, and duly * recorded, on the 16th of July, 1811, conveying the same to them.
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This was an action of ejectment, submitted to the decision oí the Court upon the following agreement: — In this case, the parties agree that the plaintiffs claim- the land demanded by virtue of a deed from Woodbury Storer, for a valuable consideration, made, executed, and duly * recorded, on the 16th of July, 1811, conveying the same to them. The defendants claim under the levy of an execution made June 29, 1812; which execution issued upon a judgment recovered by them against said Storer. The said levy was regularly made and returned, and recorded within three months. The demanded premises…
1Per curiam
The law knows no division of a day. By our practice, the last day of a term is considered the day on which all judgments are rendered, unless it appears otherwise from the record. Executions are not by law to issue until twenty-four hours after judgment is entered up. The whole of the last day of a term is therefore necessarily excluded, in computing the thirty days during which property * attached on the original [ * 206 ] writ is holden to respond the judgment. The day after the adjournment is the first of the thirty days, (a)
Plaintiffs nonsuit.
Alderman vs. Phelps, 15 Mass. Rep. 225. —…
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