Baker v. . Webb

I am of opinion that 5 Geo. II., ch. 7, meant to make lands liable to the payment of debts, and so far as regards the payment of debts, to have them proceeded against as personal chattels; and that they descend to the heir chargeable with all such just debts as shall be recovered against the executor. Hundreds of tracts of land have been sold since that act upon the supposition that the law was such.

The plaintiff had a verdict and judgment.

NOTE BY REPORTER. — Upon a case circumstanced exactly as this, tried at Halifax three or four terms ago, between Baker and Ashe, WILLIAMS, J., delivered…