Case Name: SCOTT v. WISE
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1807-11
Citations: 21 F. Cas. 851
Docket Number: 
Parties: SCOTT v. WISE.
Judges: (DUCKETT, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 21
Pages: 851–851

Head Matter:
Case No. 12,548.
SCOTT v. WISE.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 473.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term. 1807.
Imprisonment for Debt — Pkison-Bounds Bond —Assignment.
A prison-hounds bond may be assigned by a •deputy-marshal.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(DUCKETT, Circuit Judge, absent)
decided, upon general demurrer, that an assignment of a prison-bounds bond by the deputy-marshal, in the name of the chief marshal, was a good assignment. The assignment, on oyer, appeared to be signed "R. Moss, Deputy-Marshal, for D. C. Brent, Marshal of the District of Columbia." See Virginia law of 24th November, 1792 (page 119, § 2).