1777-11-28 (static/transcriptions/1777/11/033.jpg)

1777. Sittings. [Friday] Nov. 28th.

Hurrydeb Roy
v
Golaum Naby.
This is another action brought for the same kind of Injury. The Plaint states the Confinement to be in Irons for One Month and eight days. All the Counts stated the Imprisonment to be at Dacca in Bengal. In the Margine of the Record, as usual, the words
Fort William } were written in this manner
in Bengal } immediately before the words
Hurrydeb Roy by William Johnson Gentleman his Attorney complains &c. I ask’d Impey whether he thought it was right, telling him I did not mean to take an objection to it. He said the words only meant the place where we sate. I think (as at present advised) it rather means the place where the transaction pass’d, and that therefore it would not have been erroneous if it had been written Bengal, or Dacca in Bengal, but I think it is very well as it is, but I apprehend in the Court of King’s Bench, when a Record of a Trial at Bar is made up, where the cause of Action arises in Kent, they write in the Margine “Kent to wit” not Middlesex or Westminster, but of
this