Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... N-5 The Distringas in the Kings Bench. George the Fourth, &c. To the sheriff of greeting: We command you that you distrain the bodies of the several persons in the panel (b), to this writ annexed, named, jurors summoned in our court before us, between. .4. B. plaintiff, and C. D. defendant, by all their lands and chattels in your bailiwick, so that neither they nor any of them, do intermeddle therewith, until you shall have other command from us in that behalf, and that you answer to us for the issues of the same, so that you have their bodies before us at Westminster, on next after or before our justices assigned to hold the assizes in your county, if they shall first come on (c) day of at (d) in your said county, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, to make a certain jury between the said parties of a plea of trespass on the case, [or, as the plea may be, ] and to hear their judgments thereupon of many defaults; and have you there the names of the jurors and this writ. Witness, &c. (e) (6) If it be a special jury, (d) The place where the names are set out as in the assizes are holden. master's list. (e) The distringas in the (c) The commission day of' King's Bench is only sealed; the assizes. in the Common Pleas the ha beas corpora is signed also. If for Middlesex, you say-- Or before our trusty and well beloved our chief justice assigned to hold pleas in our court before us, if he shall come on the day of at Westminster, in the said county. If for London-- At the Guildhall of the City of London, aforesaid. N6. The Habeas Corpora in the Common Pleas. George the Fourth, &c. To the sheriff of greeting: We command you that you have before our justices at Westminster, on or before our justices assigned..