In re Lawson
Superior Court of Delaware
Petition by Elmer H. Lawson, assignee of a judgment by confession before the prothonotary on a warrant of attorney, and by Layton & Layton, Incorporated, holder of a judgment by confession in an action, to draw money out of court. Order for payment to Layton & Layton.
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Petition by Elmer H. Lawson, assignee of a judgment by confession before the prothonotary on a warrant of attorney, and by Layton & Layton, Incorporated, holder of a judgment by confession in an action, to draw money out of court. Order for payment to Layton & Layton. Virginia M. Joines did, on the tenth day of February, A. D. 1914, at 12:35 o’clock p.m., obtain a judgment by confession before the prothonotary for Sussex county upon a warrant of attorney, against Daniel W. Lawson and the said Elmer H. Lawson for the sum of three hundred dollars, besides interest and costs, which judgment was…
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
delivering the opinion of the court.
By act of the General Assembly, passed January twenty-ninth, A. D. 1829 (Hall’s Digest [1829] 392-395), the following provisions, in substance, among others, were enacted:
A judgment shall bind lands only from the time of actually entering, or signing it, and not by relation from the first day of the term in, or of which it is entered. Rev. Code 1915, § 4282.
*340A judgment upon a verdict, if entered before the end of the term next after that in which it is given, shall be deemed to be entered at the same time as the verdict, and shall bind accordingly.…
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