Brown v. Van Braam
This text of 3 U.S. 344 (Brown v. Van Braam) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of the United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
On the
delivered the opinion of the court. - - - - -
B~ THE COURT :-We are ~inani~oufIy of oprnion, that under the laws, and the praaical conifrualon bf the courts, of Rhode Ijiand) the judgment of the Circuit Court.ought to be affirmed.
`With refpe& to the entry of this affirmauce, intereft is to be calculated to the prefent time, upon the aggregate fum of principal and intereft in the judgment below; but no further. We cannot extend the calculation to rune Term next, when the mandate will operate in the Circuit Court, as the party ha~ a right to pay the money immediately. -
The Judgment affirmed, with Jingle coffs.
SUPREME COURT,
February i3th, I 797.
R U L E.
IT is Ordered, by the Court, That the Clerk of the Court to which any Writ of Error thall be dire&ed, may make return of the fame, by tranfn~itting a true copy of t~e Record, and of. the Proceedings in the Caufe, under his hand, ~nd the Seal of the Court.
C~IASE, ~fuflice, obferyed, that he concurred in the opinion of the court; but that it was on common law principles, and not in compliance with .~he laws and practice of the ftate.
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