1791-01-26 (static/transcriptions/1791/01/224.jpg)

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Wednesday 26 January 1791
against Mathew Dawson Esq
Trial
Mr. Dunkin for Deft
on the other side.
Read a Rel: from Deft to Nilmunny Miter Exh:
An Admon of Mr. Davies that the Rel: was duly executed – Then Mr. Dunkin proceeded thus.
The objections made are three.
I consider as a maxim, admitted in modern times, that Courts of Justice will lean in some degree against objections to Competence, and will choose rather to consider them as objections to the credibility of the wts, which are to be weighed agt such circumstances as are favourable to his credit.
In the present case the Wts has actually got a release from Mr. Dawson, and if he assists Mr. Dawson’s defence, he establishes