 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1242 pages
...enforced was "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 enm, on which an action of debt to enforce the Judgment may be maintained." Russell v. Smyth (1842)... | |
 | Lancelot Feilding Everest, Edmund Strode - 1884 - 600 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 786 pages
...enforced was, " that where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained." Russell v. Smyth, (1842) 9 M. & W. 810, 818, 819; Williams v. Jones, (1845) 13 M. & W. 628, 633, 634.... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - 1884 - 752 pages
...certain sum to be ?„'",'?** v' ' due, a legal obligation arises to pay that sum, and an action EX^'I^ ' of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained....that the judgments of foreign and colonial courts may Approved by ' De supported and enforced.' This was approved, as we have Courtof seen, in 1870,... | |
 | Morris March Estee - 1886 - 728 pages
...Judgment or Decree.— Where a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...that sum, on which an action of debt to enforce the >Dabney v. New England Mutual mestie court, or on a judgment of a Ins. Co., 14 Allen (Mass.), 300.... | |
 | 1887 - 844 pages
...13 Mees. & W. 633: "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 enforced. " It is certain that this obligation cannot spring from the mere fact that some court has... | |
 | Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations. Conference - 1887 - 774 pages
...Williams v. Jones, that ' where a Court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated a certain sum to be due from one person to another, a legal obligation arises...of debt to enforce the judgment may be maintained' (13 M. & W. 633). Mr. Alexander also cited M. Asset, the well-known Dutch jurist, who suggests that,... | |
 | David Sutherland - 1891 - 768 pages
...jurisdiction has "adjudicated a certain sum to be due from ''one person to another, a legal obligation "irises to pay that sum on which an action ''of debt to enforce...and Colonial Courts "are supported and enforced, and the same "rale applies to inferior Courts in this "coontry, and applies equally whether they "be Courte... | |
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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... 
