Case Name: Augustin Guillory v. Alexander D. Deville et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1869-09
Citations: 21 La. Ann. 686
Docket Number: No. 733
Parties: Augustin Guillory v. Alexander D. Deville et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 686–687

Head Matter:
No. 733.
Augustin Guillory v. Alexander D. Deville et als.
Tho statute of I8G5, exempting certain property from seizure under execution, is in derogation of common right, and the exemptions from seizure will not he extended to objects not expressly designated in the law.
Tli 3 prescription of five years cannot be invoiced in a case wbero judgment has been rendered on the noto, and execution and garnishment process has issued and judgment against the garnishee has been rendered from which an appeal has been taken by the original judgment debtor. In such a case the note becomes merged in the judgment, and live years prescription does not apply.
XL PPEAL from the District Court, parish of St. Landry. Porter, J.
Dupre <& Garland, for plaintiff and appellee. B. A. Martel, for defendants and appellants.

Opinion:
Ludeling, C. J.
The plaintiff, having obtained a judgment against A. D. Deville, caused an execution to he issued against him and garnished J. B. Victorianne. Victorianne acknowledged that he was indebted to A. D. Deville, and there was judgment against him for the sum he confessed to owe.
The defendant, A. D. Deville, in the District Court, alleged that he was entitled to the benefit of the law entitled " an act to exempt from seizure and sale a homestead and other property,'' adopted on the twenty-second December, 1865, and he urged that no judgment should be rendered against Victorianne, his debtor, for the amount confessed by bim, because be, Deville, did not own property to the amount of two thousand dollars, exclusive of the debt seized.
The object of the law is clearly indicated by its title. It is " to exempt from seizure one hundred and sixty acres of ground and the buildings and improvements thereon, occupied as a residence, and ono workhorse, one wagon or cart, one yoke of oxen, two cows and calves, twenty-five head of hogs, or one thousand pounds of bacon, or its equivalent in pork, and, if a farmer, the necessary quantity of corn ox-fodder for the current year; provided that the property herein described shall not exceed in value two thousand dollars," etc. This statute is in derogation of common right, and must ho strictly con strued, and the exemption from seizure will not be extended to objects not expressly designated in tho law.
The thing seized is not exempted from seizure. • The plea of prescription is untenable. Tho note was merged in the judgment and wo cannot go behind tho judgment.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the District Court be affirmed and that tho appellant pay the costs of appeal.