The Practice of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster in Personal Actions and Ejectment

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Saunders and Benning, Addison, Preston, 1836 - Actions and defenses - 417 pages

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Page 76 - In all cases in which any particular number of days, not expressed to be clear days, is prescribed by the rules or practice of the courts, the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day, and inclusively of the last day, unless the last day shall happen to fall on a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or a day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving ; in which case the time shall be reckoned exclusively of that day also.
Page 381 - The plaintiff, after the delivery of a plea of payment of money into Court, shall be at liberty to reply to the same, by accepting the sum so paid into Court in full satisfaction and discharge of the cause of action in respect of which it has been paid in, and he shall be at liberty in that case to tax his costs of suit...
Page 368 - Courts on behalf of such person, expressly named by him, and attending at his request, to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant or cognovit, before the same is executed ; which attorney shall subscribe his name as a witness to the due execution thereof, and thereby declare himself to be attorney for the person executing the same, and state that he subscribes as such attorney.
Page 18 - Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Know ye that we, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and...
Page 53 - We command you, That within eight days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of such service, you do cause an appearance to be entered for you in...
Page 88 - ... and every other sum for which he is now bail;"] that he is not bail for any defendant except in this action, [or if bail in any other action or actions...
Page 353 - ... or defendant in person, as the case may be, mentioning the city, town, or parish, and also the name of the hamlet, street, and number of the house of such plaintiff's or defendant's residence, if any such there be.
Page 207 - Stiles, now the casual ejector, by default. And it is further ordered, that, if upon the trial of the said issue a verdict shall be given for the defendant, or if the plaintiff shall not prosecute his writ, upon any other cause, than for the not confessing lease, entry, and...
Page 67 - Plaintiff will be at liberty to enter a common appearance for the Defendant and proceed thereon to judgment and execution. 3. If a Defendant having given bail on the arrest, shall omit to put in special bail as required, the Plaintiff may proceed against the sheriff or on the bail bond.
Page 353 - ... unless every writ issued in continuation of a preceding writ shall be issued within one such calendar month after the expiration of the preceding writ, and shall contain a memorandum indorsed thereon or subscribed theretO> specifying the day of the date of the first writ...

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