Case Name: Parker v. Pitts
Court: Superior Court of Chancery of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1806-09-17
Citations: 1 Hen. & M. 4
Docket Number: 
Parties: Parker v. Pitts.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 12–12

Head Matter:
Parker v. Pitts.
Wednesday, September 17, 1806.
Forthcoming Bond — Motion on — When it Can Be riade. —A motion on a forthcoming bond can only be made on the day to which the notice is given, unless the defendant be called, and the motion entered and continued.
See monographic note on “Statutory Bonds” appended to Goolsby v. Strother, 21 Gratt. 107.
The principal case was cited with approval in Powers v. Carter, etc., Co., 100 Va. 450, 41 S. E. Rep. 869.
See generally, monographic note on “Attachments” appended to Lancaster v. Wilson, 87 Gratt. 624.

Opinion:
This was a motion for an award of execution upon a forthcoming bond. The notice had been given to a preceding day of the term ; but the motion was not then made ; the defendant was not called ; nor the motion entered and continued.
By the Court. The bar will be pleased to take notice, that although this kind of practice has obtained, by their consent, in this Court, and upon that ground has been sanctioned by the Court of Appeals, yet, should the present Judge sit here at the next term, he will feel it his duty no longer to tolerate a practice in express opposition to a law of the land.