Supreme Court of New Jersey May 15, 1806 (Executors of Garretsie v. Van Ness)

Kirkpatrick, C. J.

— By the principles of the common law, a bond, being a chose in action, could not be assigned or granted over. It was thought to be an encouragement to litigiousness, and to cover maintenance, to suffer a man to make over to another, a mere right of going to law.