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Statute-merchant
or bringing in proofs to convict him, and thus, it is presumed, it obtained the name of a 'pocket judgment.' Obsolete.
Executor
the extent of all funeral and testamentary expenses and debts legally paid by him out of his own pocket, and also any debt due to himself, before he pays any other creditor in equal degree, and he … DEBTS. (7) The executor may, even after action commenced by an adverse creditor and at any time before judgment therein, pay one creditor in preference to another of equal degree. After an order for administration has been
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Replevin
him to try the right with the distrainer, and to answer him in a course of law, the Pocket Lawyer and Family Conveyancer 105, 3rd Edn., 1833. Replevin, lies, where specific personal property has been wrongfully taken … defendant's case, to show that the distress taken by him was lawful, and to entitle him to a judgment de retorno habendo. The technical difference between an avowry and cognizance was this: where the action was against
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