Righter v. Rittenhouse
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Writ of error to the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. The defendant in error, Jacob Rittenhouse, was plaintiff below, and the plaintiffs in error, John Righter and Elizabeth Margaret Hellerman, defendants. The facts of the case were these:— on the 30th March, 1820, gave a' bond with warrant of attorney to confess judgment to Jacob Rittenhouse, the defendant in error.
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IN ERROR. Writ of error to the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. The defendant in error, Jacob Rittenhouse, was plaintiff below, and the plaintiffs in error, John Righter and Elizabeth Margaret Hellerman, defendants. The facts of the case were these:— on the 30th March, 1820, gave a' bond with warrant of attorney to confess judgment to Jacob Rittenhouse, the defendant in error. The bond was conditioned for the payment of three hundred dollars on the 30th March, 1821. Judgment was entered on the bond by Rittenhouse on the 10th April, 1820. By deed bearing date, 20th July,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The principal question which has arisen in this case is, whether a fofa, issued by the consent of the defendant, more than a year and a day after the date of the judgment, and levied upon land owned by him at the time of entering the judgment, upon which the judgment was and continued to be a lien from its date to the levy, but which Was sold and conveyed by him within the year and a day, and before the issuing of the execution, is regular as against his alienee ?
At common law after a year and a day had elapsed from the date of the judgment…
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