Blood v. Morrill
Supreme Court of Vermont
Debt on recognizance. The plaintiff declared against the defendants, — “ In a plea that they, the said Lewis Morrill and Alvin ‘ Flint, render to the said Harriet Blood the sura of two hundred * and fifty dollars, which they owe to and unjustly detain from her,— ‘ For that whereas the said defendants heretofore, to wit, on the ‘ 28th day of July, 1840, at Irasburgh aforesaid, came before the ‘ Hon Isaac Parker, then and still being a judge of the county court ‘ within and…
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Debt on recognizance. The plaintiff declared against the defendants, — “ In a plea that they, the said Lewis Morrill and Alvin ‘ Flint, render to the said Harriet Blood the sura of two hundred * and fifty dollars, which they owe to and unjustly detain from her,— ‘ For that whereas the said defendants heretofore, to wit, on the ‘ 28th day of July, 1840, at Irasburgh aforesaid, came before the ‘ Hon Isaac Parker, then and still being a judge of the county court ‘ within and for Orleans county aforesaid, in their own proper per- ‘ sons, and acknowledged themselves then and there, before the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The exceptions, taken to the proceedings in this case, are very numerous, and some of them not a little difficult of apprehension.
1. In regard to the recognizance taken by Judge Parker in the vacation, it is said it should have been recorded, in order to make it evidence. By recording, here, is meant enrolling, I suppose. For unless the original taking of the recognizance is a record, the enrolling it, in the manner deeds are enrolled, (which, in common language, is well enough denominated recording,) would hardly make it a record. The…
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