Oldham v. Polk
Oldham v. Polk
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff obtained an order of seizure and sale on a mortgage by public act, which the defendant had executed in his favor The instrument was in the Usual form, with the exception of the following clause, “and the said
Our code provides, that where the title amounts to a confession of judgment (emporte execution paré?} the creditor on making out that the debt is due, may obtain an order for the immediate seizure of the property mortgaged: and this court has decided, that an authentic act containing a mortgage, is sueh a title as amounts to a confession of judgment.
And so the instrument on which the order of seizure and sale was obtained in this case would be, were it not for the clause already set out To give that part of the act any meaning, .or supnose it inserted for any purpose, we must conclude the parties did not intend this instrument should amount to a Confession of judgment, for if they had, they would not have provided for an attorney going before a court to confess judgment. The conferring such a ]pow<*r is irreconcilable with the idea, thaf
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the district court be affirmed with costs.
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