Case Name: In the matter of Harwood, an imprisoned debtor
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1818-08
Citations: 15 Johns. 397
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the matter of Harwood, an imprisoned debtor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 397–397

Head Matter:
In the matter of Harwood, an imprisoned debtor.
A person who has been imprisoned more than 30 or -60 days, as the case may be, on execution issued on a judgment recovered before a justice of the peace, and recorded with the.clerk of the county, under the act extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, (sess. 41. ch* 94.) is entitled to his discharge, on the usual affidavit, as to his imprisonment, according to the provisions of the act for the recovery of debts to the value of 25 do llarspassed the 5th of A-1818>.a11 the provisions of which act, are applicable to the act abave mentioned, (sess. 41. sofer’aViYhas rected™6 dl"
THE prisoner being brought up on an habeas corpus, Hosford moved for his discharge under the “ act for the recovery of debts to the value of twenty-five dollars,” passed April 5, 1813, (sess. 36. ch. 53. sect. 12. 1 JY. R. L. 387.) on the usual affidavit. It appeared that he had been imprisoned for more than 60 days, on an execution issued on a judgment recovered against him under the late act, extending the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to demands over twenty-five dollars, and not exceeding fifty dollars, passed April 10, 1818, (sess. 41. ch. 94.) which provides, that a transcript of the judgment of the justice of the peace may he filed in the office of the clerk of the county, and recorded by him, who is directed to issue execution on such judgment, to the sheriff of the county, &c.
I. Hamilton, contra, contended,
that the judgment against the prisoner having been recorded in the office of the- clerk of the county, and an execution issued to the sheriff, the justice had no further power or authority in the case, and that the provisions of the act of the 5th of April, 1813, were not applicable to this case.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The 12th section of the last act, (sess. 41. ch. 94.) declares, that the form of proceedings under the act shall be, in all respects, the same as under the aforesaid " act for the recovery of debts to the value of 25 dollars and all the provisions of the said act, and the amendments thereto, are declared to apply to this act, except as therein otherwise directed. This clause gives effect to the provisions of the act of April, IBIS; and we are of opinion, therefore, that the prisoner is entitled to his discharge.
Prisoner discharged.