1824, New Hampshire. Supreme Court, The New Hampshire Reports, page 70:
This contract of the receipter was in the usual form , and only expressed in writing what the law would imply without writing against any servant or agent of the officer , who might by him be entrusted with the custody of the goods .
1856, Samuel Dana Bell, Justice and Sheriff: Practical Forms, for the Use of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables : Containing Forms of Proceedings, and the Revised Statutes of New-Hampshire Relating to the Duties of Those Officers, page 54:
The receipter is not responsible , if the property is given up by him to any one who has a bettor title than that acquired by the attachment . 7 N. H. R. 596 , Webster v . Harper . ] ( $ 45 , a . A receiptor can not be permitted to ...
1864, Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, page 534:
We can see no sufficient reason , founded either in authority , principle or policy , why the receipter , or even the officer himself , might not become the purchaser . The officer undoubtedly relied upon the personal obligation of the ...
1879, John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman, The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States, from the Earliest Issue of the State Reports [1760] to the Year 1869, page 42:
The next inquiry is , whether a delivery of the goods to & receipter , who engaged to return them on demand , or pay their value , was such a relinquishment of power over the goods as to dissolve the first attachments made by the ...
1839, Maine. Supreme Judicial Court, Maine Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, page 88:
The contract made with the receipter , is an affair between him and the officer . The creditor has no interest in it ; but the officer acts at his peril . The creditor was present , when the receipt was taken and made no objection .
