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And it is further decreed, that towards paying and satisfying the sum so to be ascertained, the said William Campbell do pay and contribute a sum proportionate to the ratio, which the squares purchased by him bear to the ་ residue of the premises mortgaged to Law, in quantity & CAMPof square feet, with interest thereon from the 1st of January, 1797.

That on payment of the said sum, the said Thomas Law shall re-convey to the Complainants all those squares, or other mortgaged premises which were not sold as aforesaid; and to the sail William Campbell all those squares which the said William Campbell attached and purchased as in bill and answer set forth.

And the Court us ther decrees, that if the said William Campbell shall not, in six months after the liquidation of the sum to be paid by him and notice thereof, with interest thereon as aforefaid, pay and satisfy to the said Complainants, the sum so liquidated, then the said squares, so purchased by him, shall be sold under order of the said Circuit Court, to pay and satisfy that sum ; and that this cause be remanded to the said Circuit Court for further proceedings necessary to carry into effect this decree.

LAW

BELL.

Pratt and othERS, Defendants below

บ.

THOMAS LAW.

DECREE.

THIS cause came on to be heard, &c. Whereupon it is ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the decree of the Circuit Court be reversed and annulled; and this Court decrees, that the said mortgaged premises, whereof the said Thomas Law prays foreclosure, shall be sold, under order of the Circuit Court, for the district of Columbia, in the county of Washington, to pay and satisfy, to the said Thomas Law, so much of the sum adjudged to the said Law, in the case of these Defendants, against the said Law and W. Campbell, decided at this term, as will be proportionate to the ratio which the said portion of the said premises bears to that proportion of the said premises to which the said Law executed a release in favor of Campbell, as in bill mentioned; unless the said

PRATT

& OTHERS

บ. LAW

& CAMP

BELL.

Complainants shall, in six months after liquidation of the said sum, and notice thereof, pay and satisfy to the said Law, so much of the said sum as is, in this decree, ordered to be raised. Upon payment of which sum the said Law (shall) release to the said Complainants, his interest in the said premises.

It is further ordered, that this cause be remanded to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, in the county of Washington, for further proceedings to carry into effect this decree.

PRATT AND OTHERS, Defendants below

2.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL.

DECREE

THIS cause came on to be heard, &c. Whereupon it is ordered. adjudged, and decreed, that the decree of the Circuit Court be reversed and annulled; and this Court decrees, that whenever William Campbell shall pay and satisfy to John Miller, Junior assignce of James Greenleaf, so much of the two thirds of the sum paid by Greenleaf on the bills secured by the mortgage to Duncanson as will be proportionate to the ratio which the squares bought by Campbell subject to the mortgage to Duncanson, bear, in quantity, to the whole 18 squares mortgaged to Duncanson, then the said Campbell shall hold the said squares so purchased by him, frce and discharged of the said mortgage; and the said Duncanson, and the Complainants shall thereupon convey and assign to the said Campbell all their right and interest in the said squares so purchased by him.

And it is further ordered and decreed, that if the said Campbell shall not within six months next after the liquidation of the sum to be paid by him and notice thereof, pay and satisfy the said sum to the said Miller, then the said squares so purchased by him shall be sold under order of the Circuit Court, and the proceeds thereof applied to the payment thereof; having regard nevertheless. to any other existing prior lien upon the said squares; and this cause is remanded to the Circuit Court for further proceedings thereon to carry into effect this

decree.

INDEX

TO THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS CONTAINED

IN

VOLUME IX.

Λ.

ABEYANCE.

Land, at common law, may be gran-
ted to pious uses before there is a
grantee in existence competent to
take it, and in the mean time the
fee will be in abeyance. Town of
293
Pawlet v. Clark,

ACCOUNTS, PUBLIC.

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56

102

3. See Non-Intercourse, 1,
4. If a merchant vessel of the U. S.
be seized by the naval force of the
U S. within the territorial juris-
diction of a foreign friendly power,
for a violation of the laws of the U.
S. it is an offence against that pow-
er which must be adjusted be-
tween the two governments. This
court can take no cognizance of it.
The law does not connect that
trespass with the subsequent sei-
zure by the civil authority under
the process of the District Court
so as to annul the proceedings of
that court against the vessel. Ship
Richmond v U. S.

5 See Duti 8, 1, 2,

102

104

6. If, upon the breaking out of a war

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