Hall v. Hall
Connecticut Superior Court
Action of trespass, assault, and false imprisonment. Plea not guilty. Issue to the jury. The jury found a special verdict as follows, (viz.) That on the 12th of Pune, A. D. 1788, the defendant was constable of Wallingford, and as such had in his hands a lawful writ of execution .in favor of James Gordon of Plainfield, against the plaintiff, for the sum of £13 12s. 2d. lawful money, dated 23d of April, A. D. 1788, returnable in sixty days: That on said 12th of June, the…
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Action of trespass, assault, and false imprisonment. Plea not guilty. Issue to the jury. The jury found a special verdict as follows, (viz.) That on the 12th of Pune, A. D. 1788, the defendant was constable of Wallingford, and as such had in his hands a lawful writ of execution .in favor of James Gordon of Plainfield, against the plaintiff, for the sum of £13 12s. 2d. lawful money, dated 23d of April, A. D. 1788, returnable in sixty days: That on said 12th of June, the defendant applied to the plaintiff, and made demand of money and estate to satisfy said execution, and none being shown to…
1Opinion of the Court
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by the Court
By the statute, entitled, an aet concerning arrests and imprisonment, it is enacted, “ That no man’s person shall be arrested and imprisoned for any debt, damage, or fine, where sufficient means of satisfaction can otherwise lawfully be found from his estate, to be shown and presented by him; but if no such satisfaction can be found, his person may be arrested and imprisoned.”
By this law, no man’s person shall be arrested or imprisoned, for any debt, etc. if sufficient means of satisfaction can otherwise be lawfully found from his estate, either by the debtor’s showing it, or…
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