Patrick v. Rembert
Patrick v. Rembert
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The judgment in favor of Francis M. Rembert against the ■plaintiff in error was rendered in an action upon the note ex-•écuted by him for the purchase-money of the land sued for in this action. As against an execution issued upon that judgment, the plaintiff in error was not entitled to a homestead •exemption in that land. Code," sec. 2142 ; Code 1857, p. 530, art. 284.
The dissolution of the injunction obtained by the plaintiff against the execution of that judgment, as to $2,100 "of it, left the judgment as to the $2,100 in full force, and operative as a lien upon the whole interest of the plaintiff in error in the land, and he is not entitled to a homestead exemption in-that land as against the execution of the judgment for the sum due ■upon it, as ascertained by the decree dissolving the injunction yoro.tanto. Whatever were the rights of the plaintiff in error as against the judgment above mentioned, he accepted as final a decree'in his chancery suit to enjoin the judgment by which
It is certainly true,’ as counsel contends, that merely consenting to a judgment does noi waive homestead exemption, and involve consent to sell anything and everything that the defendant has; but consenting to a judgment which is valid "but for the party’s objection, removes all difficulty from the way of its execution, and where that judgment is founded on a debt for the purchase-money, •“ in whole or in part,” of the thing sold under execution, the purchaser under execution acquires it free from a claim that it is exempt. Code, sec. 2142.
Affirmed.
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- A. B. C. Patrick v. John P. Rembert
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- Homestead Exemption. Sale of land for purchase-money. The fact of a defendant’s consenting to a judgment against himself is not a waiver of his homestead exemption, but, where the judgment would otherwise-, be invalid, it maybe rendered valid by the consent of the defendant; and in such a case, where the judgment is founded on a debt, in whole or in part, for the purchase-money of land or other property,' the same may be sold under execution on such, judgment, free from any exemption. Code 1871, sec. 2142.