Ingles v. Bringhurst
Supreme Court of the United States
Indebitatus assumpsit for money laid out and expended, &c. The case was this : The plaintiff, Ingles, had a house in the district of Southwark, against the wall of which one Waters had erected another House.
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Indebitatus assumpsit for money laid out and expended, &c. The case was this : The plaintiff, Ingles, had a house in the district of Southwark, against the wall of which one Waters had erected another House. Waters becoming insolvent, his house, on *the 1st of August 1774, was sold « , under a venditioni exponas to one Ridley ; but he also falling into *- distress, the house, by virtue of a similar process against him, was again sold, on the 7th of March 1776, to the defendant, Bringhurst, for a full and valuable consideration. In the advertisements published on the occasion of these…
1Opinion of the Court
Shippen, President.
The principal point in this case is, whether, under our act of assembly, th e moiety of the cost of a party-wall is a personal charge against the builder of the second house, or such a lien upon the house itself, as shall render it liable to the reimbursement of the first builder, into whose hands soever it may come ?
Lien is a technical term, that means a charge upon lands, running with them, and incumbering them in every change of ownership ; as mortgages, judgments, ground-rents, &c. There are some liens, also, created by statute; as, in the very act in question, where a…
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