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

Chapman v. Griffin.
    The appraisers of land taken by execution, must all be freeholders of the town in which the land lies.
    Action of ejectment. The plaintiff’s title was the levy of an execution in A. D. 1789, duly made. The defendant sets up title under a levy made upon the same lands in A. D. 1783. All the appraisers were agreed upon by the creditor pnd debtor, but one of them did not belong; to the town where the land lay.
   Judgment was for the plaintiff; upon the ground, that the statute is express, that the land shall be appraised by freeholders of the same town; and the agreement of the parties cannot alter the law.