 | Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 pages
...lies on a judgment. Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...judgment may be maintained. It is in this way that, in England, the judgments of foreign and colonial courts are supported and enforced ; and the same... | |
 | 1856 - 748 pages
...founded is, that, where a "Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to " be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...and Colonial Courts are supported and enforced, and the " same rule applies to Inferior Courts in this country, and applies " equally whether they be Courts... | |
 | Great Britain, Leonard Shelford - 1856 - 856 pages
...Powell, 3 Drew. 326.) Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...and colonial courts are supported and enforced ; and the same rule applies to inferior courts in this country, and applies equally whether they be courts... | |
 | Leonard Shelford, Great Britain - 1863 - 930 pages
...Powell, 3 Drew. 326.) Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...that the judgments of foreign and colonial courts are sup1 &• 2 Viet. ported and enforced ; and the same rule applies to inferior courts in this c 110... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1870 - 756 pages
...on the ground that where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another a legal obligation arises...which an action of debt to enforce the judgment may bo maintained, and that the judgment debtor is not relieved from this obligation merely by shewing... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1868 - 560 pages
...Court, Parke, B., says, "where a Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...and colonial Courts are supported and enforced; and the same rule applies to inferior Courts in this country, and applies equally, whether they be Courts... | |
 | Ninian Hill Thomson - 1870 - 474 pages
...is founded is, that where a Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...and Colonial Courts are supported and enforced, and the same rule applies to inferior Courts in this country, and applies equally whether they be Courts... | |
 | 1870 - 624 pages
...founded is, that where a " Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a " certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal " obligation arises...maintained. It is " in this way that the judgments in Foreign and Colonial " Courts are supported and enforced, and the same " rule applies to inferior... | |
 | 1896 - 866 pages
...competent court has adjudicated a certain sum to be due, a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, and an action of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained....that the judgments of foreign and colonial courts may be supported and enforced." And the latter: "It is not an admitted principle of the law of nations... | |
 | John Williams, Sir Edmund Saunders - 1871 - 756 pages
...enforced is, that where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sura to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, on which an action of debt or assumpait to enforce the judgment may be maintained. And the same rule applies to inferior courts... | |
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The principle on which this action is founded is, that where a Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, on which an action of debt to enforce the judgment... 
