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Case No. 2,516.
    CATLETT et ux. v. FAIRFAX.
    [2 Cranch. C. C. 99.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1814.
    Equity Practice — Enforcing Decree against Executor.
    In Alexandria, an execution de bonis propriis. Is the proper process against an executor, upon a decree in equity for the balance of his administration account.
    This was a motion to quash an execution against the defendant, de bonis propriis, on a decree in equity against him as executor ■of the will of Lord Fairfax, for the balance ■due upon the settlement of his administration ■account, to the plaintiff’s wife, daughter of the testator.
    E. J. Lee, for the plaintiff,
    stated that the ■execution in this form was according to the practice in the court of chancery in Virginia, and produced a certificate, to that effect, from Mr. Henning, the register of that court.
   Motion overruled. (THRUSTOX, Circuit Judge, absent.)