Case Name: Isaac J. Dunn vs. Charles P. Hill
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1874
Citations: 63 Me. 174
Docket Number: 
Parties: Isaac J. Dunn vs. Charles P. Hill.
Judges: "Walton, Dickerson, Barrows, Virgin and Peters, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 174–175

Head Matter:
Isaac J. Dunn vs. Charles P. Hill.
Hul tiel record is the proper plea to a domestic judgment.
Nil debet, pleaded to a domestic judgment, is demurrable. The proper plea is nwl tiel record.
On exceptions from the superior court.
Debt on a judgment of the superior court, to which the defendant pleaded that he did not owe, and filed a brief statement of payment and fraud. The plaintiff demurred’ to the plea. The de murrer was joined and sustained, and the plea adjudged bad ; to which the defendant excepted.
M. P. Franh, for the defendant.
T. T. Snow, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
Appleton, C. J.
This is debt on a judgment recovered before the superior court for the county of Cumberland, to which the defendant has pleaded nil debet. To this plea a demurrer has been filed.
It is well settled when the action is grounded on a record or specialty that nil debet is no plea. This rule is the result of the authorities. Bullis v. Giddens, 8 Johns., 82. The proper plea is nul tiel record, when the judgment upon which the action is brought was recovered before a court of record of this State.
Exceptions overruled.
"Walton, Dickerson, Barrows, Virgin and Peters, JJ., concurred.