Case ID: nc_2/html/0246-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Administrators of Hostler, Assignee, v. Patterson and others, Sureties of McIver, late Sheriff.
    The Sheriff had returned to an execution, that he had levied monies thereupon, to the amount of £157, 8s. 4d. and now (he question was how judgment should betaken —whether for the penalty of the. Sheriff’s bond, to be discharged by the payment of the £157,8s. 4d, andeostsi or simply for thar sum not regarding* the penalty j aml at length it was entered up f>r £1¿T, 8s, 4d, — Judges agreeing thereto, reluctanier. See 1777, c. 8, s.
   Note. — The practice now is to enter up jtu g-ment for the penalty of the bond, to be discharged by the payment of the real damages assessed by the jury.