McCracken's Heirs v. Graham & Jackson
McCracken's Heirs v. Graham & Jackson
Opinion of the Court
— The statute creates the lien, the transcript gives notice of it; and when that is accomplished, all is accomplished. No particular form is prescribed, and the descriptive words “transcript or extract,” used disjunctively,to make the one an equivalent for the other, are not very precise. A transcript would be a copy; but of what ? Surely not of the whole administration account; and a transcript of the figures at the foot of it would be insensible. So would be an extract of a part of it. The legislature evidently meant an abstract, or, in other words, a con
Order of the Common Pleas reversed and rule discharged.
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- McCracken's Heirs versus Graham and Jackson
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