Petermans v. Laws
Supreme Court of Virginia
Detinue for a slave named Peter, brought by James Laws against Michael and Simon Peterman, in the circuit court of Montgomery. Plea, the general issue.
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Detinue for a slave named Peter, brought by James Laws against Michael and Simon Peterman, in the circuit court of Montgomery. Plea, the general issue. At the trial, the defendants filed several bills of exceptions to opinions of the court, only two of which are material, since the others were abandoned by their counsel in this court, and therefore the court gave no opinion on the points therein stated. 1. The first bill of exceptions stated, that the plaintiff offered in evidence, an office copy of a deed, from the register’s office of Orange county North Carolina, executed by Jonathan Laws…
1Opinion of the Court
Tucker, P.
Two objections were made in this case, to the admissibility of the copy of the deed of trust, which was introduced at the trial, and either of them appears to me to be insurmountable.
The deed of trust was executed in North Carolina, and purports to have been registered there. It is obvious, however, that it was not authenticated according to the provisions of the acts of congress, and still less in pursuance of our own statute, 1 Rev. Code, ch. 100. It is scarcely necessary to collate the authentication with the acts of congress, both because the variance is palpable, and because it…
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- Smith v. PainterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1819
- Saunders v. PateCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1826