309; Mitf. Eq. Pl]. 318.

223.

260.

p. 481.—Full faith and credit. , In the constitutional provision that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other -state, this phrase means that a judgment or record shall have the same faith, credit, conclusive effect, and obligatory force in other states as it has by law or usage in the state from whence taken. Christmas v. Russell. 5

164, 165.

486; 2 Tidd, Pr. 719. The whole clause is now, in practice, termed, from this initial word, the “memorandum,” and its use is supposed to have originated from the circumstance that proceedings “by bill” (in which alone it has been employed) were formerly considered as the by-business of the court. Gilb. Com. Pl: 47, 48.

(7th Ed.) 300, 301. State Bank v. Chetwood, 8 N. J. Law, 235.

116. See Collins v. Greene, 67 Ala. 211;

(or Pl. Com.). Plowden's Commentaries or Reports, English King’s’ Bench, etc.