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Question.
May a Release be given in Evidence on a Non Assumpsit?
12the Viner Evidence, page 239.
Siderfin 236. Beckford v Clarke.
A Release can not be given in Evidence in Assumpsit in Fact: it may, on Assumpsit in Law.
12 Viner 163. Referrs to Gilbert’s Evidence.
Hist. [B. 74.] 52 to 54.
12 Viner 163. O.v.1. There are cases that seem for and against.