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A tenant being called to make his farms furthcoming, as arrested for payment of his master's debt, will not be heard to defend himself by an alleged payment, made upon an assignation made by the master to pay a part of his duty as free mail, because it is not lawful, by private assignations betwixt the master and the tenant, for payment of mails or farms before the term, to prejudge the arrestments of lawful creditors of their just debts.
