Excerpt from Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. 6: Containing the Cases Decided in September Term and December Term 1843, and Part of March Term 1844 Grbson, C. J. -if anything has been settled by decision, it is that the right to apply a payment without restriction as to any thing but the time, devolves on the creditor in default of applica tion by the debtor; and I feel myself so bound by it, that were I ever so well convinced of the superior excellence Of the civil law, I could not adopt it. I know not how an English or an American judge can strip an adopted rule of its common law emendations merely because they were originally no part of it. It has become the law Of his court, not by virtue of any inherent Obligation in it, but by the force Of precedent; and the same force that was com petent to adopt it, was equally competent to establish the parts that were added to it. If the courts were to discard them now, the law of contracts, of testaments, of donations cause'i mortis, of guardian and ward, and, in short, of the whole mass Of moveable property, would be thrown into hopeless confusion by it, followed I]? Instability of decision - the worst curse that can befall a people. 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.