Mansony v. Toulmin
Mansony v. Toulmin
Opinion of the Court
The twelfth section of the act of 1833, “concerning attachments,” enacts, Whenever an officer may be
The acts of 1807, and 1827, apply in terms where property has been levied on by execution. In fact, both those enactments relate to the final process, the protection of sheriffs, &c. and it is clear, as well from their titles as subject matter, were not intended to embrace original attachments. If this were a question of doubt, the act of 1833 would furmsh a persuasive argument in favor of our conclusion. For it may be asked, why was this statute enacted, if those of an earlier date subserved the same purpose? It shows that the legislature supposed that the matter for which it provides, was a casus omissus in its previous enactments.
If the language of the act of 1827, could by a liberal construction be held to extend to a levy or sale under attachment, yet the act of 1833, ¡n authorising a bond of indemnity to be required by the officer levy.ng an attachment, without providing a summary remedy by express enactment, or reference to the act of 1827, cannot be held to have adopted it by implication. The omis-s.on to provide the mode of proceediag in such cases, serves rather to show that it was not intended that any other than the or
It follows from what has been said, that the obligee cannot recover on the bond in the case before us, by adopt.ng the remedy prescribed by the statute of 1827. Whether the facts stated in the record, interpose a bar to an action prosecuted in the usual form, it will be time enough to determine when such an action shall have been brought, and the case is presented for our decision.
We have only to add, that the judgment is reversed.
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