Augusta S. R. v. Wrightsville & T. R.

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• holding that 15 Arkansas law, not § 2001, governed the execution sale of appellant’s farmland because “it is manifest from the language of [§ 2001] that it is clearly made applicable only to ‘judicial sales’”
• explaining that judicial sales are “made under order or decree of [a] court” (quoting Yazoo & Miss. Valley R.R. Co. v. City of Clarksdale, 257 U.S. 10, 19 (1921))
• the title of an act cannot overcome the meaning of plain and unambiguous words used in the body
• the title of an act cannot overcome the meaning of plain and unambiguous words used in the body
• the title of an act cannot overcome the meaning of plain and unambiguous words used in the body
• district court had jurisdiction to apply Arkansas law

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