Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, on which an action of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained. Pacific Islands Pilot - Page 971897Full view - About this book
| Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1855 - 884 pages
...limits of New York. CHAPTER XI. OF THE ACTION ON A JUDGMENT OR DECREE. 1. Action lies on a judgment. Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...judgment may be maintained. It is in this way that, in England, the judgments of foreign and colonial courts are supported and enforced ; and the same... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 748 pages
...of debt would lie. Parke, B., said : — " The principle on which this action is founded is, that, where a "Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...Foreign and Colonial Courts are supported and enforced, and the " same rule applies to Inferior Courts in this country, and applies " equally whether they... | |
| Great Britain, Leonard Shelford - 1856 - 856 pages
...enforced at law against the equitable chattel estate of the defendant. (Bennett v. Powell, 3 Drew. 326.) Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...foreign and colonial courts are supported and enforced ; and the same rule applies to inferior courts in this country, and applies equally whether they be... | |
| Leonard Shelford, Great Britain - Land tenure - 1863 - 926 pages
...enforced at law against the equitable chattel estate of the defendant. (Bennett v. Powell, 3 Drew. 326.) Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...that the judgments of foreign and colonial courts are eup1 % 2 Viet. ported and enforced ; and the same rule applies to inferior courts in this c. 110, ».... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Law - 1870 - 750 pages
...opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment. Blackburn and Mellor, J J., on the ground that where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...which an action of debt to enforce the judgment may bo maintained, and that the judgment debtor is not relieved from this obligation merely by shewing... | |
| New South Wales. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 560 pages
...Jones (c), in which it was held that debt lies upon the judgment of a county Court, Parke, B., says, "where a Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...foreign and colonial Courts are supported and enforced; and the same rule applies to inferior Courts in this country, and applies equally, whether they be... | |
| Ninian Hill Thomson - Limitation of actions - 1870 - 474 pages
...old County Court, Baron I'arke says ; — ' The principle on which this action is founded is, that where a Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...Foreign and Colonial Courts are supported and enforced, and the same rule applies to inferior Courts in this country, and applies equally whether they be Courts... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 624 pages
...Madras in their rulings abovementioned) says ; " The "principle on which this action is founded is, that where a " Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated...maintained. It is " in this way that the judgments in Foreign and Colonial " Courts are supported and enforced, and the same " rule applies to inferior... | |
| Law - 1896 - 866 pages
...competent court has adjudicated a certain sum to be due, a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, and an action of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained....that the judgments of foreign and colonial courts may be supported and enforced." And the latter: "It is not an admitted principle of the law of nations... | |
| John Williams, Sir Edmund Saunders - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 756 pages
...supported and enforced is, that where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sura to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation...arises to pay that sum, on which an action of debt or assumpait to enforce the judgment may be maintained. And the same rule applies to inferior courts... | |
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