Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1765

Rochester Proprietors v. Hammond

Rochester Proprietors v. Hammond
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 15, 1765
1 Super. Ct. Jud. 159

Rochester Proprietors v. Hammond

Opinion of the Court

Ch. Justice.

’Tis impossible for the Sheriff to lay out at all.

Unanimously abated. (1)

(1) See Atwood v. Atwood, 22 Pick. 287, Wilde, J. — “ When lands are demanded, the description of them mid be so certain that seisin may be delivered by the sheriff without reference to any description dehors the writ.”

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