1 White & W. 745 | Tex. Comm'n App. | 1882
Opinion by
§ 1286. Distress warrant; bound for; “illegally” is not synonymous with “unjustly.” The statute requires the conditions of a bond for a distress warrant to be, “to pay the defendant such damages as he may sustain in case such warrant has been illegally and unjustly sued out” [R. S. 3113], whereas the conditions of the bond in this case omitted the words “and unjustly.” Statutory bonds must contain fully and clearly all the conditions prescribed by the statute. “ Illegally ” and “unjustly” are not convertible terms. They are not synonymous in a legal sense. Mr. Bouvier defines ‘ ‘ illegally ” to mean “contrary to law,” and “unjustly” as “that which is against the established law; that which is opposed to a' law which is the test of right and wrong.” Under our statute, when an amount due is for rent, the creditor has the legal right to sue out a distress warrant. But suppose that the debtor had an abundance of property out of
Reversed and rendered.