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· 4/15/1891

Scharff v. Chaffe

Citations

  • 68 Miss. 641

Syllabus

<p>Attachment. Levy; who may question. Ungathered crops.</p> <p>A judgment overruling the motion of an attaching creditor to vacate the levy of a senior attachment on cotton in the field, will not he disturbed where the record fails to show a valid levy by the junior creditor. Whatever may be true of the validity of the levy, the junior creditor cannot question it unless he has procured such a levy upon the property as will give him precedence.</p>

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  • “When a term is a legal one, we look to its estab- lished legal meaning as revealed by, for starters at least, legal dictionaries.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
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Judges: Campbell

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