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The jurisdiction was alledged and proved by the service, on the Verbal Testimony on Oath now given in Court by a Serjeant in the Service of the Company, without proving any written contract between Clarke and the Company and without the proof or production of any written evidence of his being in the Service of the Company, and I have no doubt such verbal evidence of the Service, is not only the usual Evidence of the Fact, but is legal Evidence of it, and the rather because the
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