Excerpt from Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law: Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century If the defendant does not 'appear, the plaintiff pays fifteen pence. Which is charged to the other. And the cause is kept open for another hearing. That no person may be taken by surprise. In the interim, an order is sent to the. Defendant, specifying the sum he is charged with, and the manner of payment; to which. If he has no objection, he need not appear the next court day, when the cause becomes final. This is the next class of short causes, and are the most numerous. Requiring no more brains to determine than the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
