Armstrong's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre county, appropriating the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of George S. Armstrong.
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THIS was an appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre county, appropriating the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of George S. Armstrong. On the 6th August 1831, Thomas Wilson obtained a judgment in the Common Pleas of Centre county against Clement Beckwith, whose only real estate in the county at that time was lot No. 114, which he had purchased at sheriff’s sale on the 17th March 1827. On the 31st December 1831, Beckwith purchased of James -Steele two lots of ground in Bellefonte, the deed for which was recorded on the 7th January 1832. On the 15th June 1836,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The supplementary Act of the 26th of March 1827, was enacted for the purpose of restraining the practices which had crept in under the Act of the 4th of April 1798, of constructive revivals of judgments by the issuing of execution, or by stay of execution, or of dispensing with revivals because the money was payable in futuro, or on a condition or contingency attached to a confession of the judgment, in all which cases it had been held by the court, or contended by counsel, that the lien would continue without issuing a scire facias within…
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