5 Vt. 304 | Vt. | 1831
The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
The Court coincide with the counsel in opinion, that,..upon its appearing that the defendant’s title is derived from the plaintiff, by levy of her execution upon the lands in question, her objection to the introduction of the deed from Seymour, fails altogether; for if the Statute of 1807 were not in existence, and any thing pased to the plaintiff by the deed, it would certainly inure to her benefit, if she held by conveyance from plaintiff, by deed of warrantee; because, if the title were not good the grantor would be held upon his covenants, as waa decided in Mid
To acquire a title to real estate by the levy of an execution, the creditor must have obtained a legal judgement; a legal execution, must be put it into the hands of an officer who can legally levy it upon the estate, causing the land legally to be surveyed and appraised ; but notwithstanding all this being done within the life of the execution, yet the creditor has acquired no title to the property, because the officer has made no return of his doings; but two days after, in this case, the officer made his return upon the execution, and whether he caused the proceedings to be recorded we are not told. The Court consider it absolutely necessary that some period should be definitely fixed, in which the doings of the officer shall be complete and the rights of the parties fixed.
If the direction in the execution is to govern, then, all done by the officer after the return day, is void; if two days after the return day has expired, it will be legal for the officer to make and date his return, then, why not two months or two years after? At what period will the six months redemption commence ? on the 12th of April when the appraisal was made, or on the 5th .of May when the Officer signed and sealed his return ? I am not aware "that
The judgement of the County Court is affirmed.