Case ID: njl_3/html/0281-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[†] PIERCE against WILLIAMS.
    This- was an action of dower. The demandant had obtained a judgment by default, on which, a writ of seizin and inquiry of damages, &c., had issued. The sheriff returned the writ of seizin, that he had allotted to the widow one piece of land, giving, in his l’eturn, the metes and bounds thereof; also, that he had alloted to the widow one-third of the house, barn, and orchard; the south end of the house and barn; no particular part of the orchard mentioned.
    It was moved, on the part of the tenant, that the writ and return be quashed, on the ground of the insufficiency of the return.
   By the Court.

The return is too vague and uncertain; it ought to describe the part allotted to the widow, by metes and bounds, whenever the subject matter is capable of being so described; a particular end of a house or bam, or a third of an orchard will not do.

Writ of return quashed.