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1778. 3 Term. Saturday June 20th.

Saturday June 20th 1778.
Present
Sir Robert Chambers
&
Mr. Justice Hyde.

Several motions to dismiss causes for want of proceeding, most of which were refused on undertaking to proceed. It was determined that a cause to be tried on Monday ought to be put in the Paper on the Thursday Evening preceeding at latest, and that entering the Cause in the Paper on Friday will be too late to have it tried on Monday, but in the Case now before us which was an undertaking to go on to Trial on Monday, and the Cause was enter’d on Friday, we thought this a sufficient compliance with the undertaking, although by the General Rule, such having been the practice of the Clerk of the Papers Office, the entering should be on Thursday if the Trial was to be on Monday. My brother Chambers said that the Rule using the words “two days shall have elapsed” meant two entire days, and that it ought to be understood two days in which the Defendant
might