A debt due, or acknowledged to be due, by some deed or instrument under seal; as a deed of covenant or sale, a lease reserving rent, or a bond or obligation . 2 Bl. Comm. 405; Kerr v. Ly- decker. 51 Ohio St. 240. 37 N. E 207, 23 L. It. A. 842; Marriott v. Thompson, Willes, 18!).
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