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P had a mortgage bond of $8,000 made by D. P had to foreclose upon the bond, and after the sale of the property there was still a balance due and owing on the bond of $3,877.53. D then filed a common plea with the remaining balance due based on the fact that the Court of Chancery decreed that that amount was still due and owing. D appealed.

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