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        "text": "Battle, J.\nThe decision of his Honor in the Court below, is, we think, fully sustained by the case of Taylor v. Harrison, 2 Dev. 374.\nThat was an action of debt, commenced by a warrant, in March, 1828, upon a justice\u2019s judgment, which had been obtained in May, 1821, and upon which the last y?, fa. had been issued in September following. By the Act of 1820, (B. O. 1820, ch. 1053,) it was provided, that no process to revive or enforce a justice\u2019s judgment, should be brought, \u201c but within three years from the date of such judgment, or from the date of the last execution, lawfully issuing on the same,\u201d and that all process issued to revive or enforce it after that time, should be declared void, and might be abated on the plea of the defendant. At the session of 1825, another Act was passed, which declared, \u201c that all actions of debt, grounded upon the judgment of a justice of the peace, which shall be sued or brought after the ratification of this Act, shall be commenced or brought within seven years next after the rendition of such judgment, or the test of the last execution, lawfully issuing on the same, and not after.\u201d Tayl. H. oh. 1296. The question was, whether the last Act, extended to, and revived, a judgment, which, before its passage, was barred by the Act of 1820. The Court held, that it did not. They say, \u201c it is evident, that the Act of 1825, altered the law of 1820, and made seven years, instead of three, a bar to justices\u2019 judgments, in case they lay dormant during that time. But, is it credible, that the Legislature, by passing the Act of 1825, intended to disturb rights, which had been put to rest by the Act of 1820 ? The fair construction of the Act is, that it was intended it should operate in cases arising after its passage, or perhaps, upon cases where a three years bar had not run ; but not upon cases, which the Act of 1820 had already barred. Suppose a warrant had been brought upon the first judgment given by the justice of the peace, more than three years after its date, and before the passage of the Act of 1825, and it had been abated on the plea of the defendant, under the Act of 1820, would not this be a bar to a warrant brought after the Act of 1825 ? If the Act of 1820 was a bar in such case, was it indispensable that it should be called into action, before the bar was completed ?\u201d\nThis argument is in our opinion unanswerable, and it applies with as much force to the Act of 1852, ch. 51, sec. 2, as it did to the Act of 1825.\nWe admit, that the Act of 1852, applying as it does to the remedy and not to rights of the parties, might have been made retrospective in its operation; but as it was in some degree intended to disturb a statute of repose, which is always favored, we will not be justified in allowing to it such an operation, unless its language clearly requires it. The words of the Act are, \u201c that on the trial of any suits before any of the Courts of this State, the time during which the parties to a suit shall not have been a resident, shall not be given in evidence, in support of the plea of the statute of limitations.\u201d\nThese words may be fully satisfied, by applying them to all cases where the bar of the statute of limitations (E. S. ch. 64, sec. 3.) had not already accrued. If the Legislature intended to apply them to a case like the present, the Act ought to have been entitled, \u201c An act to encourage litigation, by reviving stale claims.\u201d But we do not believe, that it had any such intention, and the policy of the Act, even upon the most favorable construction, has been deemed so doubtful, that it has been omitted in the Eevised Code.\nPer Curiam.\nJudgment is affirmed.",
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      "Bailey, for plaintiff.",
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    "head_matter": "DANIEL D. PHILLIPS, surviving partner, vs. WALKER CAMERON.\nThe Act of 1852, ch. 51, sec. 2, providing \u201c that the time during which the parties to a suit shall not have been resident in this State, shall not be given in evidence in support of the plea of the statute of limitations,\u201d does not apply to, and revive, claims barred before its passage.\nAssumpsit, tried before Manly, Judge, Special Term, April, 1856, of Orange Superior Court.\nThe action was commenced by the plaintiff as surviving partner of Hooker & Phillips, by warrant, and brought to this Court by successive appeals. The statute of .limitations was the defence relied on; to which the plaintiff specially replied the Act of 1852. A verdict was rendered against the defendant by consent of parties, subject to the opinion of the Court on the following case agreed, to wit: the account was contracted by the defendant in August, 1844, and he left this State, in the winter following, for the purpose of residing in Virginia, in which State he did reside from that time up to the bringing of this warrant in February, 1855. During that time he.occasionally visited his mother\u2019s family in Hillsboro\u2019, Orange county, but with no intention of resuming his residence in that county. The whole time occupied by these visits did not exceed six months.\nHis Honor, upon consideration of the foregoing facts, being of opinion with the defendant, ordered a non-suit, from which the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court.\nBailey, for plaintiff.\nWmston, /Sr., and Bowie, for defendant."
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