Faulds v. People

Citations

• 66 Ill. 210

Syllabus

<p>1. Time—rule for computing. Where the law required a notice to be posted six days before the day of sale, and the notice was posted on the afternoon of the fifteenth of the month, of a sale to take place on the twenty-first day of the same month: Held, that the notice of the sale was legally posted, as in computing the number of days, the day on which it was put up must be included as one of them and be reckoned as one day, the law not recognizing a part of a day.</p> <p>2. Cbimihal law—tearing down a legal advertisement. Where the defendant, whose property had been seized for taxes and advertised for sale, after replevying the property, tore down the advertisement of the sale before the expiration of the day of sale: Reid, that the act was a palpable violation of the statute, and that he was liable to indictment.</p>