Simms v. Slacum
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, in an action of debt, brought by Slaeum, as assignee of Charles Turner, sergeant of the court of Hustings of Alexandria, upon a prison-bounds bond, in which Simms was the principal, and Wise, the surety.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, in an action of debt, brought by Slaeum, as assignee of Charles Turner, sergeant of the court of Hustings of Alexandria, upon a prison-bounds bond, in which Simms was the principal, and Wise, the surety. The condition of the bond was as follows : “Whereas, Jesse Simms, in jail and custody, by virtue of a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, sued out of the clerk’s 'office of the court of Hustings, holden in Alexandria, dated the 12th day of August 1800, at the suit of George Slaeum, assignee of Charles Turner, sergeant of the court of…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the majority of the court. — This case depends on the construction of an act of the legislature of Virginia, which allows the prison rules to a debtor whose body is in execution, on his giving bond, with sufficient security, not to go out of the rules or bounds of the prison ; that is, while a prisoner. The condition usually inserted is, not to depart therefrom until he shall be discharged by due course of law, or shall pay the debt. The act further provides, that the prisoner, on delivering a schedule of his property on oath, to a tribunal…
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