Bissell v. Briggs

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 1813-03-15

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Parsons, C. J. As the effect of judgments recovered in other states in the Union, when produced in this Court to maintain actions sued here on such judgments, has been the subject of much discussion, we have considered in some detail the effect which is allowed to foreign judgments in our courts. * A foreign judgment may be produced here by a party to it, either to justify himself by the execution of that judgmen…

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