Excelsior Manufacturing Co. v. Keyser

Citations

• 62 Miss. 155

Syllabus

<p>Lien. Purchase-money of personal property. Seizure proceeding. Act March 11, 1884, construed. Pkisting causes of action.</p> <p>The act approved March 11, 1884, amendatory of § 1255, of the Code of1880, and which gives a plaintiff suing at law for the purchase-money of property sold by him to the defendant a lien upon such property while in the latter’s hands, and provides for the issuance of a writ of seizure upon the filing of the declaration, and for “ a special execution for the sale of such property,” in addition to a personal judgment against the defendant, is in its character remedial, and hence may be applied in cases where the causes of action existed at the time of its passage. .</p>