New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added.

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Title: New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added.
Author: New-Haven Colony.
Publication: London :: Printed by M.S. for Livewell Chapman, at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley,; 1656.
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ACTIONS.

IT is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof, that every person impleading another, in the Court of Magistrates, or in any Plantation Court, when the debt or damage he demands, or the action he layeth, is above twenty pounds, so that it cannot be tryed by a Plantation Court, unless two Magistrates of some other Plantation, be called in to assist, he shall pay the sum of ten shillings, before his case be entred, or any part of it heard, unlesse the Court see cause to admit the Plaintiff to sue, in for∣ma pauperis. But in all Actions, brought to any Court, the Plain∣tiff shall have Liberty to withdraw his action, or to be non suited, before Sentence passe, in which case, he shall alwayes pay full cost and charges to the defendent, and may after renew his Suite at a∣nother Court.