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

*Martin and Nicholas v. Welch and Others.
    Monday, March 1st, 1813.
    Appellate Practice — Court Equally Divided — Decree.— When a decree in Chancery is affirmed, the Court of Appeals being equally divided in opinion; it should be, “without prejudice to the legal remedies of the parties.”
    
      
      See monographic note on “Appeal and Error” appended to Hill v. Salem, etc., Turnpike Co., 1 Rob. 263.
    
   Upon an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district. This court being divided in opinion, the decree was affirmed, “but without prejudice, to the legal remedies of the parties.”