Waltermire v. . Westover

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The only question presented in this case is, whether the justice's judgment under which the defendant claims title, had ceased to be a lien, before the sale by the sheriff under it.

The lien of a judgment in the common pleas ceases as against purchasers in good faith and subsequent incumbrances at the end of ten years from the time of docketing; but continues as against the defendant himself, until the stautory presumption of payment arises at the end of twenty…