Mickle v. Miles
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Warren county. Trespass for wrongfully taking and selling the plaintiff’s goods on a landlord’s warrant. The case came up on error at October Term, 1856, and was then decided, and the only point now needing to be reported arises out of the following facts.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Warren county. Trespass for wrongfully taking and selling the plaintiff’s goods on a landlord’s warrant. The case came up on error at October Term, 1856, and was then decided, and the only point now needing to be reported arises out of the following facts. The defendant leased to the plaintiff, for a term of years, a dairy farm, with its stock of cattle and utensils, at an annual rent of $495, and there being arrears due thereon, he distrained for the same, and thus made his money. For this act the plaintiff sued, and contended, among other things, that this was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, J.
Legal definitions are,.for the most part, generalizations derived from our juridical experience; and, in order to be complete and adequate, they must sum up the results of all that experience as they are to be found in the special cases that belong to the class to be defined. The ordinary definition of rent, as a profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal, is defective in overlooking some of the cases that belong to the class; as where a furnished house or a stocked farm is leased, which are common cases: 5 Bos. & P. 224; 5…
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