#### * Beriah Phelps *versus*Tunis Decker.

*A*covenant of warranty in a deed conveying lands m the *Connecticut Susque hannah Purchase,*in the state of *Pennsylvania,*made by a citizen of *Pennsylvania*to a citizen of *New York,*is binding on the party making it; and an action may be supported here thereon, notwithstanding the law of *Pennsylvania*prohibiting the entry of a claimant under such title.

This was an action of covenant broken. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant, on the 22d day of September, 1796, by his' deed, duly executed and registered, and in court to be produced, in consideration of the sum of 4000 dollars paid him by the plaintiff, bargained and sold to the plaintiff a certain tract or township of land, bounded, &c., containing 16,000 acres of land, known by the name of *Oston,*except 1300 acres, lying and being in said township, then occupied by actual settlers thereunto belonging ; and in and by the same deed covenanted that, at the time, &c., *he, the said*Tunis, *was lawfully seised, in his otan right, of the aforesaid lands, as of a good, sure, perfect, absolute, and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the laxo in fee simple ; and that he, the said*Tunis, *had in himself good, right, full power, and lawful authority, to grant, bargain, sell, and convey the same in manner aforesaid.*The breach is alleged by negativing the affirmations of the recited covenant, and by averring that the defendant had not, in fact, any right,- title, or interest, in or to the aforesaid lands.

The defendant pleads,

1. *Non est factum;*which is joined by the plaintiff.

2. Prays oyer of the deed declared on, and has it.

[The deed set out upon oyer purports an indenture made the 22d day of September, 1796, by and between *Tunis Decker,*of the town of *Kings,*county of *Luzerne,*and commonwealth of *Pennsylvania,*blacksmith, of the one part; and *Beriah Phelps,*Esq., of the town of *HiUsdale,*county of *Columbia,*and state of *New York,*of the othei part; and witnesseth that the said *T. D.,*in consideration of the suir *269of 4000 dollars paid him by the said *B. P.,*the receipt whereof is acknowledged, grants, bargains, sells, aliens, remises, releases, conveys, assures, enfeoffs, and confirms unto the said *B. P., (in Ms actual possession being,)*his heirs and assigns forever, all that certain township of land described and called as follows, &c., (setting forth the boundaries * of the granted premises,) [ * 268 ] containing 16,000 acres of land, which said tract is a township known by the name of *Oston;*except 1300 acres of land in the same township occupied by actual settlers. *“The above is warranted from all claims and demands whatsoever, as far as the*Connecticut Susquehannah Company Purchase *extends and is regularly made,”*with the appurtenances, &c., and also all the estate, &c., as well in law as equity, of the said *T.*_D. in the same. To have and to hold to the use, &c., of the said *B. P.,*his heirs, &c. “ And the said *T. D.,*his heirs, executors, and administrators, do covenant, &c., with the said *B. P.,*his heirs and assigns, that the said *T. D.,*at the time of ensealing and delivery of these presents, is lawfully seised, in his own right, of, in, and to, the afore-described premises hereby granted and conveyed, with the appurtenances, as of a good, sure, perfect, absolute, and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the law, in fee simple, without any manner of condition to alter, change, determine, or defeat the same; and hath in him good right, full power, and lawful authority, to grant, bargain, &c., the above-described premises unto the said *B. P.,*&c., in manner aforesaid. And also that he, the said *B. P.,*his heirs, &c., shall, and may, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, enter into, have, hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy, the granted premises, with the appurtenances. And, further, the said *T. D.,*for himself, &c., all and singular the premises, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances, unto the said *B. P.,*his heirs, &c., against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming, or to claim, the same, shall, and will, warrant, and forever defend, by these presents. In witness whereof,” &c.] The defendant then pleads, in bar, that, before the execution of the said deed, divers persons, who were associated together, and known by the name of *The Connecticut Susquehannah Company,*at *Connecticut,*viz., at *Stockbridge,*in said county of *Berkshire,*on the 1st day of June, 1780, were purchasers of, and claimed to hold in their demesne as of fee, a certain large tract of land called *The Susquehannah Country,*whereof the land in the plaintiff’s declaration * mentioned is [ * 269 j parcel, and before, and at the time of, the ensealing and delivery of the deed aforesaid, all the right, title, and interest, of the said persons, so called and known as aforesaid, in the land in the *270said declaration mentioned, came to, remained, and was in him, the said *T. D.*And this, &c., wherefore, &c.

To'this plea the plaintiff demurs generally, and the defendant joins in demurrer.

3. The defendant, in a third plea in bar, avers that long before the execution of the said deed, a large number of persons associated by the name of, &c., were the purchasers, &c., as in the last plea; and that all the estate, &c., of the said persons so called and known, & c., to the said land, parcel of the said *Connecticut Susquehannah Company Purchase,*came to, and was fully and absolutely vested in, one *Richard Halsted,*who before, &c., *viz.,*on the 1st day of June, 1790, conveyed the same to the defendant in fee ; which last-mentioned deed, at the time of the execution of the deed declared on, was delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff, at his request; and the defendant further avers that all the estate, &c., of the said company in the said land, &c., by virtue of the said *Halsted’s*deed, came to, and was in, the defendant, until the execution of the deed in the plaintiff’s declaration mentioned. And this, &c., wherefore, &c.

To this plea the plaintiff also demurs generally, and the defend ant joins in demurrer.

The parties agreed, under the general issue joined in the case, *(a)***that a certain act which is recited, entitled “ An Act to prevent intrusions on land within the counties of *Northampton, Northumberland,*and Luzerne,” is a law of *Pennsylvania,*passed April 11, 1795.

1. The first section of the said act subjects to a fine and imprisonment any person who, after the passing of the act, shall take possession of, enter, intrude, or settle on, any lands within the said counties, by virtue or under color of any conveyance of any half-share right, or any other pretended title, not derived from the authority of the commonwealth of *Pennsylvania,*or of the late proprietors before the revolution.

* 2. The second section inflicts like penalties on every person who shall combine or conspire for the purpose of conveying, possessing, or settling on, any lands within the said limits, under any half-share right or pretended title, as aforesaid, or for the purpose of laying out townships by persons not appointed or acknowledged by the laws of the commonwealth, and every accessory thereto before or after the fact.

3. The third section provides for the issuing a writ to sheriff, &c., to expel intruders, &c., and for raising the *posse comitatus,*and calling forth the militia in certain cases, in aid of the sheriff, &c.

*2714. The fourth section authorizes a judge to direct the writs of *venire facias*for summoning grand and traverse jurors to any other person, in case the judge shall apprehend that the sheriff and coroner are not impartial.

5. The fifth section imposes a penalty on those who shall resist any officer, &c., in the execution of the act, &c.

6. The sixth section provides for a dissemination of the knowledge of the act, by directing it to be read in the courts in those counties, authorizes the governor to issue a proclamation upon the subject, and exempts from the operation of the act the claims of persons claiming lands under certain former laws of the commonwealth within the county of *Luzerne.*

It was also agreed that the land described in the deed set out upon oyer in the defendant’s second plea, at the date of the said deed, was unimproved and unoccupied, and lay within the state of *Pennsylvania,*and in the county of *Luzerne,*mentioned in the above act; that the defendant executed and delivered the deed declared on at *Hillsdale,*in the county of *Columbia,*and state of *New York,*where the plaintiff resided ; that the defendant had the pretended title of the *Connecticut Susquehannah Company*to the described premises, and no title from the commonwealth of *Pennsylvania,*or from the late proprietors of *Pennsylvania*before the revolution, nor any other title whatsoever, except as above stated ; and that the provisos contained in the sixth section do not extend to this case.

* It was agreed to submit the general issue joined in [ * 271 ] the case to the decision of the Court upon the foregoing statement of facts; and if the Court should be of opinion that judg ment ought to be rendered for the defendant on the said general issue, according to the above statement, the plaintiff was to become nonsuit; but if the Court should be of opinion that the plaintiff is entitled to judgment in his favor, both on the general issue, according to the said statement, and on the demurrers, then judgment should be rendered for the plaintiff, to recover such sum in damages as the Court should assess; or, if the Court should so direct, the cause should be put to a jury for the assessment of damages.

The cause was argued at the September term, 1811. by *Hulbert*for the plaintiff, and *Dewey*for the defendant; and at the last September term by *Hulbert*and *Jones*for the plaintiff, and *Dewey*and *Sedgwick*for the defendant; and again at the present term by the same counsel for the plaintiff, and *Sedgwick*for the defendant.

*For the plaintiff,*

it was argued that the defendant retained the money paid him as the consideration for the land, against equity and good conscience. He had given nothing for it. He had no title to *272the land, although he had pretended to have one, and to warrant it to the plaintiff in the most solemn manner. The act of the government of *Pennsylvania,*which, as a resident there, the defendant was bound to know, and to which, as a citizen of the state, he was a party, effectually prevented the plaintiff from any enjoyment of 1 is purchase. But although the act prohibits the purchaser from making an entry, or pursuing any remedy for the land itself, it does not avoid the covenants or vitiate the contract, as between the parties to it. The act has no operation beyond the limits of the state, and therefore could not make the contract void, which was made in the state of *New York.*The plaintiff knew nothing of the law of *Pennsylvania ;*and if this transaction was made unlawful by that law, still the defendant is bound by his contract. (1)

*For the defendant,*

it was contended, not only that the covenants were void, but that the case showed no breach of [ * 272 ] * them, if they were good and binding. Where contracts relate to lands, their construction and effect must be determined by the laws of the state where the lands lie. This contract would be absolutely void in *Pennsylvania,*where it is made penal even to combine together to convey lands under this title; much more must the actual conveyance be against the statute. Many actions have been brought, in this section of the country, upon promissory notes, given as the consideration for conveyances of land under this title, and they have uniformly failed. This must have been on the ground that the conveyances were void, and that no remedy lay upon the covenants in them. —2 *Caines’s Rep.*149.

But if the deed was good, and the covenants binding on the defendant, the case does not disclose any breach of them. The general covenants of seisin and warranty, by a due and fair construction, are to be restrained and limited by the special covenant, immediately following the description of the premises, that they are warranted as far as the *Connecticut Susquehannah Company Purchase*extends. The meaning of this clause plainly is, if the title of that company is good, the vender warrants it. So far as that title is good, so far he covenants that his title and conveyance are good. Now, the case finds expressly that he had all the title of that company to the land he undertook to convey. It is immaterial in what part of the deed the covenant is contained. This provision was probably inserted, unskilfully it is acknowledged, but it was inserted to qualify all the succeeding parts of the instrument, and the Court will effectuate every part of a deed, according to the plain intent of the par*273ties to it, if possible. (2) They will never understand a grantor as undertaking to convey and warrant more than by the deed itself he assumes a right to convey and warrant.

*For the plaintiff, in reply.*

The real meaning, and, indeed, the most plain and prominent meaning, of the clause on which the defendant’s counsel rely, as restraining.and in event avoiding his general and expi ess covenants, is to limit the extent of the territory to which the *habendum,*and the posterior covenants should apply.

The description of the land might * go beyond the limits [ * 273 ] of the company’s purchase; and in that view a caution is inserted, that, if it should prove so, the grantor was not to be held by his conveyance or his covenants to warrant the title beyond those limits. The word *purchase*has acquired a signification here wholly distinct from its technical sense, and means the territory itself, as “ Holland’s Purchase,” and many others.

General covenants are to be restrained by others more special and limited in the same deed. (3)

This transaction can never be considered as a combination or conspiracy, within the second section of the act of *Pennsylvania,*unless it can be said that the plaintiff conspired to procure himself to be cheated out of 4000 dollars.

The action stood continued *nisi*for advisement, and, at the follow mg March term in *Suffolk,*judgment was pronounced for the plaintiff

(a)

 [What is the general issue in an action of covenant? — Ed.]

(1)

 1 *Powell on*Contracts, 177. — 1 *Esp. Rep.*125, *Drummond*vs. *Deey.*— See also *Cong.*471.—3 *D. & E.*17, 266. —1 *Shep. Touch.*372.

(2)

 2 *Bos. &*Pul. 13, *Browning*vs. *Wright.*— 5 *D. & E.*522, *Duke of Northumber land*vs. *Errington.*

(3)

 1 *Saund.*58, *Gainsford*vs. *Griffith.*— 3 *Bos. & Pul.*574, *Hesse*vs. *Stevenson.*— 1 *Lev.*40, *Cook*vs. *Founds.*— 4 Dallas, 436, *Bender*vs. *Fromberger.*

Sewall, J.

(After briefly stating the action, the pleadings and the facts agreed.) If the declaration, in this case, is sufficient to charge the defendant, the pleas in bar admit a breach, and allege no excuse. It has been argued that the declaration is insufficient, because upon oyer, whereby the deed becomes part of the declaration ; it appears that the covenants are limited to the title of the *Connecticut Susquehannah Company;*that is, the defendant has undertaken for a conveyance of their title, such as it was, and for nothing more. “ The above is to be warranted from all claims, &c., as far as the *Connecticut,*&c., purchase extends, and the survey is regularly made.”

But for the defendant to say that the company were purchasers, and claimed to hold the territory, of which the tract conveyed to the plaintiff was parcel, without averring a good title or seisin in them, or averring such title or seisin in himself, deduced from their purchase and claim, is no answer to the breach alleged. The averment is only that tne title, interest, and claim, of the company, was in him; but this does not answer the alleged breach of no seisin of a good and absolute es- *274[ * 274 ] tate. &c., because it does not appear, nor is it alleged,* that the title, or interest, or claim, of the company amounted to a seisin actual or rightful, or to a right to convey.

The principal question made in the argument was, whether the deed was void *ab initio*by the rules of the common law, because it purports a conveyance of land within the county of Luzerne, in the state of *Pennsylvania,*when the title, or claim of title, conveyed, was not derived from the commonwealth or proprietors of *Pennsylvania,*and had not been confirmed according to the provisions of the statute to prevent intrusions.

■The inquiry must be, whether it was void at common law, for there is no provision of the statute to render deeds void, respecting any title not derived from the commonwealth or the proprietors of *Pennsylvania,*or confirmed by certain special statutes respecting claimants under the *Susquehannah*title.

Besides, when a deed is avoided by a special provision of a statute, such provision is to be taken advantage of by pleading specially the facts upon which the statute operates; as in the cases of usury, gaming, and sheriffs’ bonds. (4)

By the common law, deeds of conveyance, or other deeds, made contrary to the provisions of a general statute, or for an unlawful consideration, or to carry into effect a contract unlawful in itself, or in consequence of any prohibitory statute, are void *ab initio,*and may be avoided by plea; or, on the general issue'of *non est factum,*the illegality may be given in evidence, to show that the writing executed by the defendant is not a deed by any legal construction or effect.

The first section of the statute of *Pennsylvania,*relied on for the defendant, provides a penalty against any person who shall take possession of, enter, intrude, or settle, &c. It is unnecessary to say that nothing transacted within the state of *New Yorlc*is within this clause, as a punishable offence. And the execution of a deed, which may lead to the commission of the crime, if the grantee should have the temerity to commit it, as in pursuing his supposed [ * 275 ] title by an entry *or intrusion, seems not to be within the clause, as being constructively unlawful, unless it appeared that the parties contemplated that unlawful purpose, and no other; and then it would fall more properly within the second section, whereby every person, who shall combine or conspire for the purpose of conveying, possessing, or settling upon, any lands within the limits aforesaid, is subjected to a penalty.

The defendant has urged his defence upon this clause.

*275And as it respects the plaintiff, he seems not to be chargeable within the meaning of the statute, or to have done that which the statute prohibits. Other facts than are stated must be proved, before he can be said to have combined and conspired to convey a pretended title, not derived as the statute requires. If he purchased ignorant of this statute, and of the defect of the title conveyed to him, as he must be presumed to have been, the deed, as to him, and against the defendant who deceived him, is good under the statute; and supposing the deed executed within the state of *New*York, and that to be the only overt act provable, to substantiate any offence within the penalties of the statute, even the defendant would not be liable. And although the deed may be so far illegal as to be void, and not only an ineffectual conveyance, but also incompetent evidence of title within the state of *Pennsylvania;*yet there seems to be no reason to conclude that it is void as between these parties. As a conveyance, its operation is local, and determinable only where the land lies which was pretended to be conveyed by it; but respecting the consideration paid, and the personal contracts collateral to the title, for the assurance of the purchaser, this contract made in another state with a person there domiciled, and not a subject, or presumed to be conusant of the laws of *Pennsylvania,*is not to be considered as void *ab initio;*nor would it be so considered, I apprehend, if the present demand were made in the courts of that state.

In this view, and supposing the question were now to be examined within the jurisdiction of *Pennsylvania,*and to be determined by the laws of that state, what is there in these collateral covenants contrary to the statute produced for *the defend- [ * 276 j ant ? These are not evidence of a combination to intrude, under a pretended title, upon lands in *Luzerne,*or a combination in the conveyance of a pretended title in such lands, but the contrary. The consideration paid, and the personal covenants required, in the conveyance are evidence to show, on the part of the plaintiff, a title supposed to be good; and the personal security required, on his part, is therefore to be enforced against the grantor, if the title should fail.

The courts of *Pennsylvania*would, in this view of the case, take notice on behalf of the plaintiff, that he was not a subject of that commonwealth, a party to their legislative acts, or to be supposed conusant of them ; that he had been deceived in his purchase, in a contract made without their jurisdiction ; and that, as to the consideration paid to the defendant, and the personal covenants to be enforced against him, the contract was there complete, and depended upon no act to be done within the jurisdiction of *Pennsylvania,*oi contrary to the prohibitions of their statute.

*276The maxim on which the defendant relies, *Ex dolo malo non oritur actio,*is in no case to be enforced for the benefit of the defendant, even against a party *pari delicto.*It is a maxim of general policy, by which parties in a transaction unlawful in itself, or in consequence of prohibitory statutes, are enabled to punish each other for the common good, where either must derive, from the laws they have violated, a power to enforce a contract arising *ex turpi causa,*or the transgression of a positive law. The maxim does not apply to a ■party who, in his actual situation, has a presumption of innocence in his favor, and where, in the nature of the transaction, and of the claim to be enforced, a case is proved remote from the prohibited transaction, although collateral to it.

The case at bar is analogous to that of *Holman*vs. *Johnson,*(5) although stronger for the plaintiff’s claim. The *Dunkirk*merchant in that case recovered, in *England,*the price of his tea, although sold - with knowledge, on his part, that the purchaser intended [ * 277 ] to smuggle it into *England. **The contract, as it respected the plaintiff, was complete at *Dunkirk,*and the purchaser therefore liable, because, as made there, it was not an unlawful contract; although, if the payment of the price had depended upon a delivery of the tea in *England,*no action would have been maintainable there, either for the delivery of the tea, or for the payment of the price.

In the cases of *Briggs & Al.*vs. *Lawrence,*(6) and *Clugas*vs. *Penaluna,*(7) where, upon contracts for the purchase of brandy to be smuggled into *England,*the plaintiffs, who were the sellers, having knowledge of the purpose of the purchasers, and having aided it in the mode of packing the article in a manner suitable, the circumstances of an actual participation in the unlawful purpose, and that the parties were all subjects of *England,*and to be presumed conusant of the laws prohibiting the importation, are noticed and relied on by the Court, as the grounds of their decisions against the plaintiffs, and to discharge the defendants.

In these respects, the case at bar is stronger for the plaintiff than the case of the *Dunkirk*merchant, who recovered the price of the teas; for it is stated as'a fact, that he knew of the purpose of smuggling, although he did not participate in the prosecution of it, Whereas, in the case at bar, it is not stated as a fact, nor is it to be presumed, from the terms or tenor of this contract, that the plaintiff had any knowledge of the prohibitory statute now urged .against him. As a legal title or assurance, the deed was not understood to avail in any respect against the laws of *Pennsylvania ;*nor did the *277covenants now in question depend upon any attempt of the plaintiff to intrude unlawfully upon the tract of land conveyed.

The case of *Belden*vs. *Pitkin,*decided in the state of *New York,*(8) was cited as in point for the defendant. But that decis ion proceeded upon ground not open to the present defendant. In the first place, the contract which was attempted to be enforced in that case was directly, and in'the terms of it, a combination to convey *Susquehannah **lands, lands within the [ * 278 ] county of *Luzerne;*and the action was brought for „a share of the gain, or the sums collected by the agent in this unlawful business. The contract there was directly a violation of the statute, as contrary to the avowed purposes of it. But, further, the court seem to have considered conveyances of *Susquehannah*lands, under the *Connecticut*title or claim, as a known and undisguised fraud, every where criminal in itself, independently of the statute of Pennsylvania; and therefore the action by one partner, in a combination of fraud, against another partner, for a share of the profits, was not to be tolerated.

The case at bar is clear of every suggestion of this kind. The plaintiff was no party to any unlawful purpose, except as he was cheated and deceived to place his money in the hands of the defendant, upon a pretended title, which the latter undertook fraudulently and unlawfully to sell, against the laws of the state where he was resident at the time, and of which he was a citizen.

The defendant, besides conveying the title, covenanted for the sufficiency of it. To deny the plaintiff a remedy upon these covenants, would be to aggravate the mischief, and leave the defendant in the possession of his emolument, gained by . a fraud practised with impunity.

What has been stated of decisions in this Court upon the question is stated upon memory; and the cases are not so recollected, or so uniformly reported, as to admit of our confidence; nor can we consider these loose recollections as giving the advantages of an authority which we should be disposed to respect and adhere to.

It was said that promissory notes, given for the consideration of purchases and conveyances of *Susquehannah*lands, have been successfully defended against, upon the ground that the contract was unlawful by the statute cited, and was utterly void.

If there has been any decision where a *boni fide*endorsee of a promissory note, seasonably transferred, and for a full and valuable consideration, has been met, and answered, and * defeated of his action by a defence of this kind, it [*2791 *278would be a case in point; because it must have proceeded upon the ground that here, and every where, a conveyance of *Susquehannah*lands, under the supposed *Connecticut*title, was in itself a fraud ; and that a note so obtained was not only without consideration, but also an unlawful contract, not to be enforced, even for the benefit of an innocent endorsee.

But we are not satisfied that any such decision has ever been made in this Court; and if we had evidence of it, we must be allowed to say that the facts stated in this case do not warrant a like decision between these parties.

Against the payee of a promissory note or bill of exchange, when he brings his action, the party charged may aver that the note or bill was given without any consideration, as an accommodation note, for which the payee gave nothing, or that the intended consideration had utterly failed. (9) But we cannot accede to the position, that this would be a good defence for the present plaintiff, in an action by the present defendant, if the consideration of this deed had not been paid in money, but secured by promissory notes. Evidence of the falsity of the title conveyed, in which the notes originated, would not have been a sufficient defence upon the effect of the *Pennsylvania*statute ; for the covenants area consideration, notwithstanding, on the ground of a failure of the title pretended to be conveyed.

It may be said — and the case was supposed in the argument —that a demand may be made upon the covenants of the deed, where the consideration was only secured, and never actually paid; and where the notes given for it have been, in fact, avoided by proving the failure of title, according to the supposed decisions which have been alluded to. To suggestions of that kind we answer, that evidence to that' effect, if the case has really happened in fact, whether lawfully or not, will be proper in the inquiry of damages, and competent for the defendant to give. And if he produces the notes themselves given on this purchase, arid delivers them up to [*280] be * cancelled, this may avail him to reduce the damages ; the defendant not being answerable for the consideration expressed in the deed, if, in point of fact, it was never paid, *(a)****279But it purports to have been paid; and the evidence, to reduce the damages, must be produced by the defendant. Otherwise the con sideration acknowledged by the deed to have been paid and re ceived, with lawful interest thereon, must be recovered in damages, with such other expenses as the plaintiff shall prove himself to have sustained.

Let the action be further continued for judgment, which is to be rendered on an inquiry of damages, unless the parties agree on the amount, *(b)*

ADDITIONAL NOTE.

[Where a deed of sale appears on the face of it void, the relative and dependent covenants are also void ; but not those which are collateral and independent. — *Wadi*vs. *Merwin,*11 *Pick.*280.—F. H.]

(4)

 5 *Co.*119, *Whepdale's*case. —2 *Wils.*341, *347. — Bull. N. P.*224

(5)

*Cowp.*341.

(6)

 3 *D.*& *E.*454.

(7)

 4 *D. & E.*466.

(8)

 2 *Caines's Rep.*149.

(9)

3 *Johns.*463. — See also *Peake’s L. of Evid.*219.

(a)

*[Leland*vs. Stone, post, 459. — *Wilkinson*vs. Scott, 17 *Mass. Rep*249. — *Shephard*vs. Little, 14 *Johns.*210. — *Bowen*vs. *Bell.*20 *Johns.*338. — *Hamilton*vs. *Ezrs. M*'Guire, 3 *Serg. &*Rawle, 355. — *Jordan*vs. Cooper, *Ibid.*564. — *Weigley’s Admr.*vs. Weir, 7 *Serg.*Rawle, 309. — *Thallenier*vs. *Brinkerhoof*6 Cowen, 102. — *Jackson*vs. M'Chesney, 7 Cowen, 360. — Sed vide *Eveleth*vs. Crouch, 15 *Mass. Rep.*207. — *Davenport*vs. *Mason,*15 *Mass. Rep.*85. — *Steele*vs. Adams, 1 *Greenl.*1.— *Dixon*vs. *Swiggetty*1 *Har. & Johns.*252. — *Brocket*vs. *Foscue, Ruffin.*54. — *Rowntree*vs *Jacob, 2 Taunt.*141. — *Bristow*vs. Eastman, 1 *Esp. N.*P. *C.*172. — Ed.]

(b)

**See *Blozam*vs. *Withers,*3 *Barn. & Cresw.*232.—5 *Dow. & Ry.*82. — Ed.]f