Aurand's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Union county.* This was an appeal by Abraham Aurand from the decree of the court below, distributing the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Samuel Aurand, deceased, in the hands of his administrator.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Union county.* This was an appeal by Abraham Aurand from the decree of the court below, distributing the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Samuel Aurand, deceased, in the hands of his administrator. On the 21st April 1834, Abraham Aurand obtained a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas of Union county against Samuel Aurand, for $600, on which the defendant paid interest up to the time of his decease, but which was not revived by scire facias. Samuel Aurand died on the 19th August 1845, indebted to divers creditors, but with no other judgment against…
1Per curiam
By interpretation of the Statute of Westm. 2, a judgment binds the land had at the date of it, and without limitation of time. The creditor might have execution of it in-the hands of the debtor at any indefinite period while the judgment remained unpaid. Thus stood the law in Pennsylvania till the statute of 1798 restrained the lien of a judgment to a period *152of five years; but only in favour of purchasers from the debtor, and judgment-creditors in his lifetime: it left it without bound or limit against every one else. Such is the plain meaning of the act, and such the interpretation of it…
2Cited by6 opinions
- First National Bank & Trust Co. v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
- Brubaker's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
- Colenburg v. VenterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Ziegler v. SchallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Jeffries' EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Washington County · 1938
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