Hart v. Deshong

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

This case does not primarily concern itself with such form of acknowledgment of an antecedent debt as will remove the bar of the Statute of Limitations. It rather has to do with the effect of a payment of goods on account of such antecedent debt. The two matters, however, are so closely connected that a logical discussion of the latter seems to require some consideration of the former.

At early common law time constituted no bar to an action for the enforcement of a legal right and Statutes of Limitations had their origin in 1623 in the Statute of…