Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
The bill filed in this case is for the foreclosure of a mortgage, dated on the 4th of August 1809, to secure the payment of three promissory notes, given by the mortgagor John Peter, to the mortgagee Thomas B. Beale, the testator of the complainants.
The mortgaged premises were a house and several lots in Georgetown, which the mortgagor afterwards, on the 16th of
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