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The Common Law, are given severally and respectively to the several Judges of this Court, and as according to the Opinion of Mr. Justice Blackstone the Judges of the Court of King’s Bench used to Issue Writs of Habeas Corpus severally, we have agreed was have severally, authority to Issue the Writ, but not jointly as a Court. This was the Opinion of the Majority of the Court the Chief Justice and myself, the other two Judges I believe Mr. Justice Lemaistre and my brother Hyde’s opinions went some thing further, but the Court never had Issued the
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