Case Name: CHARITY ROBINSON vs. JOEL ROBINSON, Adm'r. of Charles Robinson,deceased
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1841
Citations: 3 Harr. 391
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHARITY ROBINSON vs. JOEL ROBINSON, Adm’r. of Charles Robinson,deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 391–392

Head Matter:
CHARITY ROBINSON vs. JOEL ROBINSON, Adm’r. of Charles Robinson,deceased.
. purchaser’s title to land sold under a venditioni exponas, relates to the time of sale.
. judgment recovered at the return term after sale, does hot bind the land. .
Balance of proceeds of sale ordered to be paid to the administrator of defendant.
The sheriff sold the lands of Charles Robinson on the 13th of February, 1841, on a vend, exponas to May term, 1841, for $ 1,350, and ipplied $677 89 to judgments existing at the sale. Other judgments rére entered on the 22d and 24th of May, 1841, upon awards during [hat term of the court, and the plaintiffs in those judgments now Claimed the balance of the proceeds of the sale of the land. The [heriff paid the money into court.
Bayard, for these judgment creditors,
contended that the title to (he land was not fully divested until the rising of the court to which íe sale was returnable; and that judgments recovered in the mean jme, were liens upon the land until confirmation of the sale; when he pi’oceeds were applicable to these and other judgments accord-to their seniority. The sheriff is not bound to apply the money Intil the rising of the cohrt.
Gilpin, contra, for the administrator,
contended that the title of the purchaser related to the day of sale, and no after recovered judgment .could be regarded as having any lien upon the land, or any claim upon the proceeds, except through the administrator, in the legal distribution of assets. The sale, though open to objection at the return term, is confirmed of course without objection, and without any action of the court; and if no such objection be made, the sale does, per se, divest all judgment liens, apd transfer title.
J. 1. Bayard, for the creditors.
Gilpin, Attorney-general, for the administrator.

Opinion:
And of this opinion were the Court, who discharged the rule obtained by the judgment creditors for talcing the money out of court; and made an order in favor of the administrator for the payment ofl the balance to him to be administered.
Rule discharged.