Court Opinion

ID: 5474455
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 20:45:54.728184+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:25.961123
License: Public Domain

Per .Curiam.

By the 11th section of the “ act for the recovery of debts to the value of 25 dollars.” (sess. 36. ch. 53. 1 N. R. L. 387.) it is provided, “ that no execution of any judgment given by virtue of this act, shall issue against any freeholder or inhabitant having a family, &c. in less than thirty days after giving the said judgment, unless the party in whose favour judgment shall be given, shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the said Justice, on his own oath, or the oath of some other person, that such plaintiff will be in danger of losing the debt or damages, if such delay be allowed; in which case the said Justice shall issue execution immediately, unless the party against whom such judg*272merit shall be given, shall thereupon give security to thé Party ™ whose favour judgment was given, that he will pay the debt, or damages and costs, before, or at the expiration °f thirty days.” The plaintiff in error contends, that the' execution was properly issued in this case, under the proviso to the 11th section of the act. We are of a different opinion. It is clear, that the oath of danger must be taken by the party in whose favour judgment is given, at the the time the judgment is rendered by the Justice ; otherwise, the "defendant would’be deprived of the benefit of staying the execution for thirty days, on giving security. In this case, the plaintiff appeared before the Justice, about fifteen days after the judgment was rendered, and took the oath when the defendant was not present, and was entirely ignorant of the proceeding. If this course should be allowed, the party against whom the judgment is given, might, in all cases, be deprived of his right on giving security, to have the execution stayed.
Judgment affirmed.