Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1814

President of the Portland Bank v. President of the Maine Bank

President of the Portland Bank v. President of the Maine Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided May 15, 1814
11 Mass. 204

President of the Portland Bank v. President of the Maine Bank

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The law knows no division of a day. By our practice, the last day of a term is considered the day on which all judgments are rendered, unless it appears otherwise from the record. Executions are not by law to issue until twenty-four hours after judgment is entered up. The whole of the last day of a term is therefore necessarily excluded, in computing the thirty days during which property * attached on the original [ * 206 ] writ is holden to respond the judgment. The day after the adjournment is the first of the thirty days, (a)

Plaintiffs nonsuit.

Alderman vs. Phelps, 15 Mass. Rep. 225. — Davis vs. Blunt, 6 Mass. Rep. 487Heywood vs. Hildreth, 9 Mass. Rep. 393.

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