Keighler v. Ward
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below quashing the return to a writ of sequestration under the following circumstances: The appellants obtained a decree in tire court of chancery-on the 13th of May 1851, against Royston Betts for $21,111.26, under a bill filed in that court on the 16th of January 1849, and on the 6th of September 1851, filed their petition in the case, setting out the decree and the failure of Betts to pay…
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below quashing the return to a writ of sequestration under the following circumstances: The appellants obtained a decree in tire court of chancery-on the 13th of May 1851, against Royston Betts for $21,111.26, under a bill filed in that court on the 16th of January 1849, and on the 6th of September 1851, filed their petition in the case, setting out the decree and the failure of Betts to pay the same, and praying for the writ of sequestration to enforce payment thereof. On the same day the writ was issued by…
1Opinion of the CourtMason, J.
The questions involved upon this appeal have never before, as we are aware, arisen in any court in Maryland. They relate to the nature, office and applicability, of the writ of sequestration, as a part of our equity jurisprudence. We have no doubt that this writ is in full force in this State, both as a mesne process against a party in contempt, as well as a judicial writ to enforce the performance of a decree, and in its latter office may be said to be analogous to an execution at law. The process of sequestration came with our chancery system from England, and has since been fully…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- White v. GeraerdtNew York Court of Chancery · 1832
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