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

Case No. 5,893.
    HADEN v. PERRY.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 283.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    March Term, 1806.
    Confession of Judgment — Return of Writ.
    Judgment cannot be confessed before the return term of the writ.
    The defendant was arrested on a writ returnable to the next term.
    Mr. Taylor, for defendant,
    moved for a habeas corpus, to bring up the defendant to confess judgment at this term, and cited the act of assembly of Virginia of 19th December, 1792 (page 113, § 43), that a confession of judgment is equal to a release of errors.
   But

THE COURT

overruled the motion. See McNeil v. Cannon [Case No. 8,913], June term, 1803, and Smith v. McCue or Askew v. Smith [Id. 588], March adjourned term, 1804.