1778-06-27 (static/transcriptions/1778/06/032.jpg)

1778. 3 Term. Saturday June 27.

Saturday June 27th 1778.
Present
Sir Robert Chambers
&
Mr. Justice Hyde.

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Mr. Tilghman, Moved in two Ejectment causes, on the Petition of the Tenant in Possession, Nornarain Metre, that he might be admitted to defend instead of the Casual Ejector, and might be at Liberty to Plead to the Jurisdiction of the Court, as well as Not Guilty.
In other respects the petition was nearly in the usual form.
The title of the Cause, as I write those Titles, is, or rather will be at the Trial, when the New Plaint has been filed,
Kunoo Mootinaul,
Lessor of John Doe:
v
Nornarain Metre.
I thought the Rules had provided, that the Tenant in possession should in his Petition to be permitted to defend, confess, that he was an object of the Jurisdiction, as well as confess the Lease, Entry and Ouster, stated in the Plaint, but on looking into the book
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