# Brown v. Van Braam

> Supreme Court of the United States · February 13, 1797 · 3 U.S. 344

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8373622

## Case

- **Full name:** Brown versus Van Braam
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** February 13, 1797
- **Citations:** 3 U.S. 344; 3 Dall. 344; 1 L. Ed. 629; 1797 U.S. LEXIS 203
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

On the
WILSoN Jujilce,
delivered the opinion of the court. - - - - -
B~ THE COURT :-We are ~inani~oufIy of oprnion, that under the laws, and the praaical conifrualon bf the courts, of Rhode Ijiand) the judgment of the Circuit Court.ought to be affirmed.
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`With refpe& to the entry of this affirmauce, intereft is to be calculated to the prefent time, upon the aggregate fum of principal and intereft in the judgment below; but no further. We cannot extend the calculation to rune Term next, when the mandate will operate in the Circuit Court, as the party ha~ a right to pay the money immediately. -
The Judgment affirmed, with Jingle coffs.
SUPREME COURT,
February i3th, I 797.
R U L E.
IT is Ordered, by the Court, That the Clerk of the Court to which any Writ of Error thall be dire&ed, may make return of the fame, by tranfn~itting a true copy of t~e Record, and of. the Proceedings in the Caufe, under his hand, ~nd the Seal of the Court.
C~IASE, ~fuflice, obferyed, that he concurred in the opinion of the court; but that it was on common law principles, and not in compliance with .~he laws and practice of the ftate.

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