c Searle v lane S c vern Eq can ab Lord chancellor decree for a debt  preferable to a bind the plaintiff obtain a decree in chancery for pound  against the defendant intestate and thereupon bring a cognizant fa to revive  the decree against the defendant the defendant plead that he have pay away all  the intestate estate to satisfy debt due upon bind from the intestate before  the cognizant fa bring and before he have notice of this decree and freeman  thereupon the question be whether this shall be a devastavit in the defendant  in pay bonddebt before this decree and this point be argue by Keck and  pollexfen for the defendant and finch for the plaintiff it be decree for the  plaintiff that a decree in this court for a sum certain be equal to a  judgement at law and as a executor shall be bind to take notice of a judgement  at law although in a inferior court of record so much more of a decree in this  court Littleton v Hibbins cro Elizabeth sorrel v carpenter p wms be a court of  a high authority and jurisdiction and thereupon decree pro quer but if the  decree have be only to account see ante c p and c p with the reference there  make and have not ascertain the sum it will have be no more than a judgement  quoad to sum up at law which be no complete judgement till the account  stated Bull n p the action of account be now little use though Wilmot c I  speak with approbation of it in Godfrey v sander will but Lord Hardwicke c in  ex part box Ves sen Lord Redesdale c of Ireland in OConnor v Spaight Sch and  Lef and Lord Eldon c in the corporation of Carlisle v Wilson give sufficient  reason why the legal remedy have become obsolete and have be supersede by a  bill in equity this case be reheard in term Paschae before the lord  commissioner who take time to consider of it quaere how determine see the  extract from Reg lib infra the rehear be not before the lord commissioner but  the Lord chancellor jefferies in the mich term before he abscond but without  escape the wellmerited though irregular and disorderly punishment of his  offence and see post append c Reg lib b fol on the first hear the court  declare that the decree be equal to a judgement at law and that the intestate  estate be bind by the say decree and that the defendant be in contempt for not  pay the plaintiff and do therefore order the say defendant to pay forthwith  the pound decree against his intestate with interest for the same and cost  from the time the defendant be serve with a writ of execution of the say  decree by r l b fol we learn that the cause be reheard by the Lord chancellor  and the decree make on the former hear order to stand freeman er p freeman de  term S trin in curian porter