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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Nelson v. Matthews.
    Saturday, October 11, 1806.
    Appeal — Lapse of Two Terms before Record Brought Up —Effect—After two terms of this Court have elapsed since the appeal, and before the record is brought up, a judgment cannot be affirmed; but the appeal may be dismissed with costs.
   Two terms of this Court having elapsed since the appeal was granted by the District Court in this case, Chapman Johnson, for the appellee, moved that it should now be ^docketed, and the judgment affirmed, it being a case for delay. The Court, (consisting of Judges Lyon's, Carrington and Tucker,) upon the authority of the case of Mills v. Black, 1 Call, 241, decided that the judgment could not be affirmed; but dismissed the appeal, with costs._