The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.

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Title: The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
Author: Leonard, William.
Publication: London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for Henry Twyford, Thomas Basset, William Rawlins and John Place,; 1686.
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CCXCVIII. Fetherstone and Hutchins's Case. Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench.

IN an Action upon the Case upon Assumpsit, the Plaintiff decla∣red, That whereas one Hill had recovered in an Action of Debt against J.S. 10 l. upon which a Capias was awarded against the said J.S. by force of which the Plaintiff Arrested him: and so being under his Arrest, the Defendant in Consideration that the Plaintiff would suffer the said J.S. to go at large, circa negotia sua, and to go to his own House: And also in Consideration of 2 d. paid to the Defendant, he promised to pay to the Plaintiff the said 10 l.

It was holden by the Court, That the same was a void pro∣mise within the Statute of 23 H. 6. for the Consideration to let the Prisoner go at large, is not lawful; and if part of the Con∣sideration is naught, so is the whole: And Adjudged accord∣ingly.