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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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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England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
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London :: Printed by F.L. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, G. Bedel, and C. Adams,
1658.
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Law reports, digests, etc. -- England.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61918.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Page 235

Paine against Prestny.

Mich. 1650. Banc. sup.

PAine brought an Action upon the case against Prestny,* 1.1 for speaking these words (to a Constable) of him; Take charge of him, and carry him a∣way, for I lay flat Felony to him, and for speaking these words to the Plain∣tiff himself, I will make you hold up you hand at the Bar: upon not guilty pleaded an issue was joyned, and a verdict found for the Plaintiff. It was moved in arrest of Iudgement that the words are not actionable; but the Court held them cléerly actionable, and ruled the Plaintiff to take his Iudge∣ment, except other cause were shewed to the contrary Friday following.

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