Case Name: HORD vs. JAMES
Court: Tennessee Superior Court of Law and Equity
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1805-11
Citations: 1 Overt. 201
Docket Number: 
Parties: HORD vs. JAMES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 201–201

Head Matter:
HORD vs. JAMES.
In Equity. Bill to foreclose.
Part of the land, respecting which this bill was brought, lay in Virginia, and part in this state. The bill prayed, that the part lying in this state, might be vested in the complainant, with a general prayer of other and further relief as usual.
On a bill to foreclose the court will not decree thatthe title bevested in the Mortgagee but will direct a sale &cc.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Consistently with the law as laid down in all the modern books, we cannot vest the title in the complainant. The land, or part of it, must be sold at public sale, and the money applied to the payment of the debt and interest. The property may be of much greater value than the debt and interest, and it would be most unjust to vest the whole of it in the plaintiff, when the mortgage was only intended to secure a debt; it would be equally unjust to decree the property in full satisfaction, for it maybe of less value than the debt and interest.
Let it be sold,observing the directions of the acts of assembly in relation to the sale of real property under execution.