7 Wend. 388 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1831
By the Court,
An objection was taken to the transcript, that it was not written in the English language, according to the requirement of the fourth section of the statute of jeofails, 1 R. L. 118. Without enquiring into the question whether advantage could be taken on the trial of a noncompliance with the statute, it is a sufficient answer to the objection to say that it is not well founded in fact. The transcript is written in bad English, and probably worse Dutch, and so far is liable to the criticisms made upon it, but the essential parts of it are sufficiently intelligible to answer all legal purposes.
The true answer to all this is, that by the 15th section of the twenty-five dollar act, and 17th section of the fifty dollar act, the constable is expressly prohibited from levying or collecting the amount of any execution issued by virtue of those acts, unless the same be collected within the times specified in the same, in the one 30, and in the other 90 days. The correctness of these decisions, therefore, do not depend upon a construction of the provisions which regulate, generally, the issuing and return of the executions, and which are substantially the same, as to the duty of the constable and sheriff in respect to them, but are made in conformity to the express and positive injunction of the statute. There is no such prohibition upon the sheriff, when the execution is issued on the transcript judgment by the clerk, and the prohibitions referred to are confined exclusively, and in terms, to the constable, and of course, •are only applicable to executions issued by the justice. The «ases .cited, .therefore, do not control the question in this case.
Another argument might be drawn in favor of the construction that the sale is valid, although made after the return day of the execution, from the consideration that the execution issued by the clerk is the process of the common pleas, and subject to its control, like all other process issuing from those courts. 2 Cowen, 508. 5 id. 31.
Judgment for plaintiff