Court Opinion

ID: 8236310
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-16 01:56:58.054512+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:42:36.677089
License: Public Domain

The act of Maryland of 1798, giving preference to judgment creditors, does not embrace foreign judgments.From which order of the Orphans’ Court the counsel for-George Norton prayed an appeal. The .‘plaintiff did not prosecute his appeal, and it was dismissed by his attorney. "‘In paying the debts of the deceased, an executor or administrator shall observe the following rules: Judgments and decrees against the deceased shall be wholly discharged before any part of other claims; after such judgments and decrees shall be satisfied, all other-just claims shall be admitted to a distribution, on an equal footing, without priority or preference; if there be not sufficient to discharge all such judgments and decrees, a proportionable division or dividend shall be made between the judgment and decree creditors, but no executor or administrator shall be bound to discover what judgments or decrees have been passed against the deceased, unless in the high court of chancery, or the general court of the shore, or the court of the county where the deceased last resided.” 2 Maxcy’s Laws of Maryland, 478.