WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES TO THE LATEST AMERICAN CASES,

BY

GEORGE SHARSWOOD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

PHILADELPHIA:

P. H. NICKLIN & T. JOHNSON, LAW BOOKSELLERS,

NO. 2 SOUTH SIXTH STREET.

1838.

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by

P. H. NICKLIN & TOPLIFF JOHNSON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia:
T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, Printers,
No. 1 Lodge Alley.

I. Of the nature of a distress, and the causes for which it may be made

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