Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria v. Withers

' This is ,a writ of error to a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, hitting in Alexandria, in an action-of debt '; and the •case depends-on the laws.of Virginia, as they stood yvheñ jurisdiction over the District Was first exercised by Cóngress.

By the iaW of Virginia, the- proceedings, until an . issue is made up in a cause, are taken in the clerk’s office at monthly rules, and judgments by default beeomé final on the last day of the succeeding term, till which day the' defendant in any such action has a legal right to set the judgment aside, and to. plead to…