Case Name: JAMES HUBBARD vs. CLARK WENTWORTH
Court: New Hampshire Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1824-02
Citations: 3 N.H. 43
Docket Number: 
Parties: JAMES HUBBARD vs. CLARK WENTWORTH.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 43–44

Head Matter:
JAMES HUBBARD vs. CLARK WENTWORTH.
A debtor’s body is not exempted from arrest in this state» because he has beesu committed in execution in Massachusetts for the same debt, and been there discharged, upon taking the poor debtor’s oath. ¾
Debt, upon a judgment rendered by the justices of the circuit court of common pleas, holden at Ipswich, in the county of Essex, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the first Monday of March, 1821.
The defendant alleged, that execution issued upon the said judgment, on the 24th March, 1821, by virtue of which his body was arrested and committed to prison, from which he was discharged on the 23d July, 1821, upon taking the poor debtor’s oath, in pursuance of the laws of Massachusetts, whereby his body became exempted from all further liability to be arrested for the same cause, by the laws of that state : he therefore moved the court to award execution in this case against his goods and estate only, and not against his body.
Burleigh, for the plaintiff.
Hodgdon, for the defendant.

Opinion:
By the court,
The motion, which the defendant has made ⅛ this case, cannot prevail. The exemption of the defend-¿.nt's body in Massachusetts was. local, and cannot be regarded: here. 14 Johnson 346, Peck vs. Hozier.-2 do. 193, Smith vs. Spinola.—7 do. 117, White vs. Canfield.—1 D. & E 470, Maule vs. Murray.—1 Dallas 188, James vs. Allen.—2 East 453.—1 Caine's Rep. 402.—3 Johnson 263.—11 do. 194,—1 Bos. & Puller 138, Melan vs. Fitzjames.-—5 Mass. Rep. 509.—10 do. 337.
Motion overruled,