Young v. Remer
New York Supreme Court
In Equity. The defendant Monroe obtained a judgment against his co-defendant Remer, before a justice of the peace of the county of Yates, on the 12th of October, 1837, by confession, for $161,47, and on the same day filed a transcript in the office of the clerk of the county of Yates.
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In Equity. The defendant Monroe obtained a judgment against his co-defendant Remer, before a justice of the peace of the county of Yates, on the 12th of October, 1837, by confession, for $161,47, and on the same day filed a transcript in the office of the clerk of the county of Yates. On the 29th of February, 1844, more than six years after the judgment was rendered, he procured an execution to be issued upon his judgment, by the clerk of the county of Yates, and delivered to the sheriff of that county, who levied upon lands in which the plaintiff’s assignor had, on the 26th of June, 1840,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, H. Gray, J.
The revised statutes make provision for filing transcripts of justices’ judgments in the office of the clerk of the county in which they are rendered, and for docketing the judgment by the clerk; which, when done, is “ a lien on the real estate of the defendant within the county, in the same manner and with the like effect as if such judgment had been rendered in the court of common pleas.” It is then provided that such judgments may be revived by scire facias in the court of common pleas of the county “ in the same manner, in the like cases, and with the like effect,…
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