Case ID: dall_1/html/0135-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Geyger versus Stoy.
    THE defendant was brought before the Court on a Hab. Corp. and the return stated, that he was commited in execution by the warrant of a Justice of the peace for a debt of £10, 6, 3.
    
      Sergeant
    
    moved that he should be discharged, on this principle, that although the errors of a Justice, while he keeps within his jurisdiction, are binding, ’till his judgment is reversed; yet where he exceeds his jurisdiction, all his acts are, in themselves, merely null and void.
   By the Court.

—It appearing upon the face of the record, that the justice has exceeded his jurisdiction, by giving judgment, and issuing an execution, for a greater sum than ten pounds, we cannot but consider the whole as a nullity; and, for that reason alone, discharge the defendant.