Locke v. Cannon
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
This was a common-law attachment, against an absconding debtor, issued by a justice of the peace, under the Act of Virginia, of 26th of December, 1792, §§ 6, 7, 8, p. 116. A vessel belonging to the defendant and one Primus Woodland, was attached and judgment entered at this' term, which was the first term after the return of the attachment. offered to appear without bail, for the purpose of pleading that the defendant was never an inhabitant of the District of Columbia, and…
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This was a common-law attachment, against an absconding debtor, issued by a justice of the peace, under the Act of Virginia, of 26th of December, 1792, §§ 6, 7, 8, p. 116. A vessel belonging to the defendant and one Primus Woodland, was attached and judgment entered at this' term, which was the first term after the return of the attachment. offered to appear without bail, for the purpose of pleading that the defendant was never an inhabitant of the District of Columbia, and therefore could not be an absconding debtor, and the justice-had no jurisdiction to issue the attachment. contended that…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court (Morsell, J., absent,)
set aside the judgment, and permitted Mr. Mason to appear for the defendant without bail, and without discharging the attached effects; and to plead to the jurisdiction as suggested.
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