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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3: In the Eastern District; With References to Cases in the Subsequent Reports; Containing the Cases Decided at December Term, 1837, and March Term, 1838 Both acts ought to be construed together, and the question which is in operation determined. Both cannot be sustained, for that would produce the entire discharge of the debt, and not a mere temporary suspension. It never could have been the intention of the legislature to prevent a creditor from suing for seven years, and then bar his claim, because he did not sue within six years. If the act of limitations be now running against the plaintiff's claim, and the act of 1814 be not sufficiently powerful to arrest its pro gress, the latter cannot drive the plaintiff out of court, who is in court, in obedience to the requisitions of the former act of assem bly. The act of 1814 either repeals the act of limitations, or must conform to it. To allow them to sustain a position independent of each other, will require the court to perform acts of absurdity and injustice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.