Bissell v. Briggs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of debt upon a judgment recovered, in the Superior Court of Judicature, in the state of New Hampshire, by the present plaintiff against the defendant, and one Joseph Gair. since deceased. The defendant pleaded two several pleas, nil debet, and not guilty. On both these pleas issue was joined to the country.
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This was an action of debt upon a judgment recovered, in the Superior Court of Judicature, in the state of New Hampshire, by the present plaintiff against the defendant, and one Joseph Gair. since deceased. The defendant pleaded two several pleas, nil debet, and not guilty. On both these pleas issue was joined to the country. The trial of these issues came on before the Chief Justice, November term, 1811, when the plaintiff produced in evidence a record of the judgment declared on, authenticated as is required by the statute of the United States, 1 Cong. Sess. 2, c. 11. From the record…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
As the effect of judgments recovered in other states in the Union, when produced in this Court to maintain actions sued here on such judgments, has been the subject of much discussion, we have considered in some detail the effect which is allowed to foreign judgments in our courts.
* A foreign judgment may be produced here by a party to it, either to justify himself by the execution of that judgment in the country in which it was rendered, or to obtain the execution of it from our courts.
If the foreign court, which rendered the judgment, had jurisdiction of the cause, the justification is…
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