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Writ.
Mr. Justice Hyde, assented to this assertion that the Court never had Issued the Writ.
Note. Although the Court has never Issued the Writ, yet from the first they have been argued in Open Court almost as often as they have been at all argued. Some times it has been declared that the Argument was before the Judge who ordered the Writ to be Issued and that the other Judges only attended as assistants to that Judge, and at other times the arguments have been heard without any such declaration.
When the Returns have not been made before the Term, the Court has frequently been moved
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