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Case No. 2,007.
    BROWN v. GILLES.
    [3 Cranch, C. C. 363.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1828.
    Judgment — Scire Facias — Amendment.
    A scire facias to revive a judgment, on confession for damages only, in an action of debt, cannot be amended, if it is conformable to the judgment; nor can the judgment be amended upon nul tiel record, in scire facias.
    [At law. Brown, administrator of Smith, v. George Gilíes.
    Motion to amend judgment and scire facias denied.]
    Mr. Wallach, for the defendant,
    moved the court to amend the original judgment and: the scire facias, upon the plea of nul tiel record, and cited the following authorities: Braswell v. Jeco, 9 East, 316; Patrick v. Woods, 3 Bibb, 232; Perkins v. Petit, 2 Bos. & P. 275; Bucksome v. Hoskin, 2 L. Raym. 1057.
    Mr. Key, contra.
    • The scire facias cannot be amended unless there be something to amend by. The scire facias is conformable-to the judgment, which was confessed for damages only, in an action of debt. The issue is nul tiel record, but there is such a record of such a judgment. The scire facias is correct.
   THE COURT awarded the execution,