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1791. Third Term. [Tuesday] July 12.

Plea saying contrary to the form of the Statute is sufficient.
Mr. Richardson argued that if the Court on this Plea could take notice of the Statute of 7 G. 1st: yet a Bond is not within the words of that Act, which are Contract and Agree, and a Bond is an obligation of an higher nature than a Contract, but Blackstone’s Commentaries Volume 2d page 464, and the Books both of the Common Law of England and of the Civil Law define the meaning of the general word Contract so as
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