Case Name: The President, Directors, and Company, of the Union Bank versus Royal Thayer
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1817-09
Citations: 13 Tyng 362
Docket Number: 
Parties: The President, Directors, and Company, of the Union Bank versus Royal Thayer.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 309–310

Head Matter:
The President, Directors, and Company, of the Union Bank versus Royal Thayer.
Judgment upon mortgage may be entered upon filing an attested copy of the deed, instead of the original-.
The tenant having been defaulted in an action by the demand-ants for possession of certain lands, which had been mortgaged to them by the said Thayer, Bigelow moved the Court for direc tians to the clerk to enter judgment upon filing an attested copy of the mortgage deed, instead of the original; stating that, after judgment, and before the right to redeem expires, mortgagees often pay the debt at the bank, and desire a' release on the back of the mortgage deed.

Opinion:
And the Court authorized the clerk to do so in this case, and said they saw no objection to his considering it as a general rule for his guidance.