Narrationes modernæ, or, Modern reports begun in the now upper bench court at VVestminster in the beginning of Hillary term 21 Caroli, and continued to the end of Michaelmas term 1655 as well on the criminall, as on the pleas side : most of which time the late Lord Chief Justice Roll gave the rule there : with necessary tables for the ready finding out and making use of the matters contained in the whole book : and an addition of the number rolls to most of the remarkable cases / by William Style ...

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Title: Narrationes modernæ, or, Modern reports begun in the now upper bench court at VVestminster in the beginning of Hillary term 21 Caroli, and continued to the end of Michaelmas term 1655 as well on the criminall, as on the pleas side : most of which time the late Lord Chief Justice Roll gave the rule there : with necessary tables for the ready finding out and making use of the matters contained in the whole book : and an addition of the number rolls to most of the remarkable cases / by William Style ...
Author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Publication: London :: Printed by F.L. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, G. Bedel, and C. Adams,; 1658.
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Conisby and Fairfax.

Pasc. 23 Car. Banc. Reg.

A Iudgement was given in an Action of Trespass in the Court of Owse∣bridge in York,* 1.1 & a writ of Error was brought in this court to reverse the Iudgement, many exceptions not material at all were taken, and many

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others that were helped by the Verdict; but the three chief Exceptions were. 1. The Damages were declared to be ad valentiam quingint. librar. instead of quingent. for there is no such word as quingint, to express any number, for if it be meant to express Fifty, it ought to be quinquagint, but quingent. signifies 500. 2ly. The Venire was directed Balivis de Wapentagio, whereas there is no such word, for the word to express a Wapentake is Wapentachi∣um, so that it ought to be de Wapentachio, and not Wapentagio. 3ly. The Ve∣nire is,* 1.2 Venire facias de baliva, and sayes not what Baliwick, which is uncer∣tain, and it cannot be known, whither it extends and upon these Exceptions the Iudgement was ruled to be reversed, except better matter shewn Sa∣turday following.

Notes

* 1.1

Error to re∣verse a Iudge∣ment in Trespasse.

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* 1.2

Venire.

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