Case ID: h-j_1/html/0109-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chase, Ch. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GENERAL COURT, (E. S.)
    APRIL TERM, 1801.
    Glassgow’s Adm’r. vs. Porter, et. al.
    
    The act of limitations does not beR*in to operate until the expiration of the time limited for the payment of the money secured to be paid by the bond, &c.
    Two actions of debt on two bonds, dated the 2d of March 1771, one of them payable the 1st of May 1771, and the other payable the 1st of May 1777. Tee ^rits issued on the 21st of January 1793. The deiendants pleaded the act oj limitations. Replications, the intestate and administrator beyond seas, viz. in Pennsylvania.
    
    
      Harper, for the defendants,
    contended, that the act of limitations operated from the date of the bond, and not from the time of payment. lie cited the act of 171-5, c/i. 23, s. 6, which declares that no bond shall be good and pleadable, or admitted in evidence, after the principal debtor or creditor have been both dead twelve years-, “or the debt or thing in action above twelve years standing”—meaning, he contended, the debt or thing in action created by the bond.
    
      David, Alexander, and Jas. Scott, for the plaintiff.
    
      ■Key, Harper -and Barroll, for the defendants.
   Chase, Ch. J.

The court are of opinion, that the act of limitations does not begin to operate until the expiration of the time limited for the payment of the money.