| Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Gilbert Stuart - Constitutional history - 1805 - 354 pages
...all the chattels of the debtor, saving only his oxen and beasts of his plow, and the one half of his land, until the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent." After this the act gives the same -privilege as in case of statute merchant, to the creditor dispossessed.... | |
| William Coleman, New York (State). Supreme Court, George Caines - Law reports, digests, etc - 1808 - 548 pages
...metes and bounds, the value* &c. Yet the statute of West. 2. 13 EI c. 18. \vhich gave the elegit, only required in general, that the sheriff deliver one...defendant at the trial, ought to have been received, to show the sale was fraudulent and void. The evidence went to show, that the first sale was valid and... | |
| John Impey - Civil procedure - 1818 - 996 pages
...the chattels of the debtor, (nave only his oxen, and beasts of his plough,) and the one half of his land, until the debt be levied, upon a reasonable price or extent. If the lands are extended upon an elegit, the plaintiff is If nolandsnrs for ever barred from having another... | |
| Sir Edmund Saunders, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 494 pages
...him ail the chattels, (sav" ing only his oxen and beasts of his " plough,) and the one half of his " land, until the debt be levied, upon «' a reasonable price or extent. And " if he be put out of that tenement, " he shall recover by a writ of novel " disseisin, or after,... | |
| English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...goods ; or that the sheriff shall deliver to him all the chattels of the debtor,')- and one half of his land, until the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent. J The reason for allowing the creditor to choose between these two modes of proceeding, is not apparent... | |
| George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 626 pages
...the chattels of the debtor, (saving only his oxen and beasts of the plough,) and the one half of the land, until the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent. " There is nothing in the words of this statute which makes the judgment a lien; it could have that... | |
| James Ram - Debtor and creditor - 1835 - 642 pages
...goods; or that the sheriff shall deliver to him all the chattels of the debtor, and the one half of his land, until the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent." If the creditor elects to have one half of the land, the writ directed to the sheriff is called an elegit.... | |
| Great Britain - Law - 1836 - 626 pages
...chattels of the debtor (saving vcrcd. • only his oxen and beasts of his plough) and the one half of his land, • until the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent. And if he Assise mnin• be put out ofthat tenement, he shall recover by a writ of novel dis- tainahlc... | |
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