A foreign attachment was issued against the commonwealth of Virginia, at the suit of Simon Nathan: and a quantity of cloathing, imported from France, belonging to that state, was attached in Philadelphia. The delegates in Congress from Virginia, conceiving this a violation of the laws of nations, applied to the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, by whom the sheriff was ordered to give up the goods.
The council for the plaintiff, finding that the sheriff suppressed...
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