Peoples' Trust, Savings & Deposit Co. v. Ehrhar

Citations

• 34 Pa. Super. 16

Syllabus

<p>Justice of the peace — Judgment—Transcript—Execution—Proceedings to obtain possession — Sheriff’s sale — Acts of June 16, 1836, P. L. 755, March 20, 1810, 5 Sm. L. 161, June 24, 1885, P. L. 160, and May 9, 1889, P. L. 176.</p> <p>'■ A judgment in a proceeding before a justice of the peace or alderman and a sheriff’s-jury under the act of June 16, 1836, to obtain.possession of premises by a purchaser at sheriff’s sale, is not'within the meaning of the statutes authorizing transcripts of judgments of justices of the peace to be filed in the office of the prothonotary, and providing that such judgments shall thereafter have all the force and effect of judgments originally obtained in the court of common pleas.</p> <p>Statutes — Construction—Repeal.</p> <p>Later statutes which do not abrogate settled practice or repeal former statutes are to be expounded as near to the use and reason of the prior law as can be, without violation of their intent. “ • v</p>