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1796. Second Term. [Wednesday] March 9th.

Strenuously, against admitting this new Evidence, three months after the last Witness had been heard, and they compared it to the Case of a Person under arrest, not being permitted to sign a Warrant of Attorney to confess a Judgment without having an Attorney on his behalf to Witness it.
The Majority of the Court, Sir Robert Chambers, Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Hyde, and Sir Robert Watson, determined that the Letter might be, if proved re’d, although it had been before understood, that
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