Case Name: Seaman demandant, against William Miller, tenant
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1806-02
Citations: 1 Johns. 148
Docket Number: 
Parties: Seaman demandant, against William Miller, tenant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 148–148

Head Matter:
Seaman demandant, against William Miller, tenant.
This court will not order a judgment to be s.gned nunc pro tunc, to give eilect to a judgment under the statute ci eating forfeitures for adhering to the enemies if the stale, passed in 1782.
THE demandant, Adam Seaman, had been convicted on an indictment before the general sessions of the peace, in the county of Westchester, of adhering to the enemies of the state, on which judgment of forfeiture was entered in the supreme court, in the term of October 1782, pursuant to an act of the legislature entitled, “ An act for the forfeiture and sale of the estates of persons who have adhered to the enemies of this state, and for declaring the sovereignty of the people of this state, in respect to fill property within the same,5’ passed, the. 22d October, 1779.
The rule for judgment had been regularly entered in the minutes of the clerk of the court, and the record made up, but not signed,
Woodworth, attorney general, now moved, that the record, a copy of which was produced, should be signed, nunc pro tunc.
See Greenlef’s edition of the laws. vol. 1. p. 26.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We are not disposed at this day to lend our aid to give effect to forfeitures made during the late revolutionary war.
Rule refused.