The reports of that reverend and learned judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight sometimes one of the judges of the common pleas : containing many choice cases, judgments, and resolutions in points of law in the severall raignes of King James and King Charles / being written in French in his owne hand, and now faithfully translated into English according to order.
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The reports of that reverend and learned judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight sometimes one of the judges of the common pleas : containing many choice cases, judgments, and resolutions in points of law in the severall raignes of King James and King Charles / being written in French in his owne hand, and now faithfully translated into English according to order.
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England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
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London :: Printed by T.R. for Henry Twyford, and Thomas Dring ...,
1656.
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Law reports, digests, etc. -- England.
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"The reports of that reverend and learned judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight sometimes one of the judges of the common pleas : containing many choice cases, judgments, and resolutions in points of law in the severall raignes of King James and King Charles / being written in French in his owne hand, and now faithfully translated into English according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45254.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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Hil. 10 Jac. Meredith versus Bonill.
HUgh Meredith a Iustice of Peace in the County of Monmouth, brought an action upon the case against Bonill, for these words, I will have him hanged for robbing on the high way, and for taking from a man five pounds and an Horse. After Verdict for the Plaintiff, it was moved in Arrest of Iudgment, that the words were not actiona∣ble, for they are not Affirmative or Positive, but a supposition only; as if he had said,I will indite him for such a matter: it was vouched to be adjudged 51 Eliz. in Nowels case, that to say of an Attorna••••. That he was Cooped for forging Writs maintain an action: And 14 Eliz. He is infected of the Robbery, and he smelleth of the Robbary, adjudged actionable.
In balls case, There is never a Purse cut in Northamptonshire but Ball hath a part of it, will not bear action: But the Court would not declare their opinion, Quia sub spe Concordiae.