Description Ebenezer McLeod and John McKinlay Release of Judgement

Outside:

“Supreme Court

John McKinlay
to
Ebenezer McLeod
Release of Judgement

 

In the Supreme Court
May 1862

John McKinlay
Ebenezer McLeod
Docket of Judgement

 

 

Province of Nova Scotia
Registrars Office Pictou 20th May
1862 I Certify that the writhers
Instrument was duly registered
at 8 P.M. of the above day in
Libee 49 folio 135 on the certificate
of David Matheson Proy
pursuant to Law
John Ferguson
Registrar”

Inside:

“Entries on the Supreme Court May 1862

Cause John McKinlay in person
vs
Ebenezer McLeod      D. Dickson

Confesses between the same John McKinlay and the said Ebenezer McLeod for the sum of two hundred and two dollars.

Therefore it is considered that the said John McKinlay do recover against the said Ebenezer McLeod the said sum of two hundred and two dollars together with fifteen dollars nd fifty cents for his costs of suit.

Signed David Matheson Proy
                        14th may 1862

 

 

John McKinlay
vs
Ebenezer McLeod

In the Supreme Court Pictou
            Judgement 17th May 1862
                        Debt    $202.00
                        Cost         15.50
                                    $217.50

Judgement registered at Pictou 20th May 1862 in Libee 49 folio 135

Know all men that I John McKinlay of Pictou Esquire in consideration of Two hundred and seventeen dollars fifty cents debt and costs and all interests thereon due on a judgement [reeavened?] by [rue?] against Ebenezer McLeod of the West River [to me?] paid and hereby acknowledge have revise released and discharged and do revise release and discharge unto the said Ebenezer McLeod the said judgement debt costs interred and all claims by virtue thereof which judgement was reconvened 17th May 1862 and registered as above.

            Witness my hand and seal this 20th day of March A.D. 1809

Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of                          John McKinlay

 

 

I DAIVD MATHESON, Prothonotary of Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature of the County of Pictou, in the Province of Nova Scotia, do hearby certify unto all whom it doth or may concern, that the foregoing is a true and correct extract and copy of the original Docket and Judgement in cause of John McKinlay against Ebenezer McLeod of the West River in the County of Pictou yeoman entered upon the Docket Book of Judgements of Her Majesty’s supreme court at Pictou in the Province aforesaid, Book 11 page 126 which Judgement was truly Entered, Docketed, and signed by me David Matheson at Pictou as Prothonotary of said Supreme Court, on the seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Two for the sum of two hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. Debt and Costs of suit.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the said Supreme Court at Pictou this seventeenth day of May in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Two.

                                    David Matheson Proy

Alternate Details

Part of the MacLeod Papers Collection containing the files of Ebenezer McLeod of West River, a Hector descendant and surveyor, and his son Daniel. The papers, which are from the 19th and 20th centuries, were saved by Ebenezer’s great-great-grandson Medford MacLeod, also of West River, NS.

File Location

MacLeod Papers Folder, Digital

Details
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File number: MacLeod Papers 52
Contributor:    Susan Parker | View all submissions
Tags: MacLeod Papers, MacLeod, McLeod, Ebenezer McLeod, John McKinlay, Release of Judgement, David Matheson, Pictou, D. Dickson
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Uploaded on: May 26, 2017
Source: MacLeod Papers Collection

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