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

Hall v. Fitch, Sheriff.
    A bondsman may be) relieved by an audita querela, against the debt in a judgment recovered against him, for ilie escape of a prisoner; where the original creditor’s right of action, is "barred against the sheriff, by the Statute of Limitation.
    Audita Querela, praying to be relieved from a certain execution which the sheriff had against him; which was obtained upon a bond, conditioned that one Cook should abide a faithful prisoner, on the ground that the sheriff’s right of recovering the money, arose from his liability to the creditor; and that the creditor’s right of recovering against the sheriff, in this case, was extinguished and barred by law.
   Judgment — That he he relieved as to the debt in the execution only. 1 Bac. Ab. 198; Cro. Ja. 387.