Case Name: Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence Hooff
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 21
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence Hooff.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 21–22

Head Matter:
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence Hooff.
If the information upon a by-law state that the penalty accrued to the commonwealth, when, by charter, it accrued to the town, the judgment must be arrested.
Information, for keeping a slaughter-house in the town of Alexandria, contrary to a by-law of the corporation.

Opinion:
The Court
arrested the judgment on the ground that the inform ation stated that the penalty accrued to the Commonwealth. By the act of incorporation of Alexandria', all penalties for breaches of by-laws were to be for the use of the town, and to be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods.