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1778. 3 Term. [Saturday] July 11.

=tent to hear such a motion and to put off the Trial of the Cause. I said it was accordingly done in the instance then before the Court, and afterward in several other cases I said I thought the first instance of any doubt raised concerning the capacity of the Court to hear a motion at the Sittings to put off a cause, was at the Sittings after the fourth Term 1778.
Mr. Litchfield, at my desire, look’d over his Minute Book and Rule Book to find instances of Rules to put off causes at the Sittings since October 1777 but found expressly in Point, only the Case of
Anupe and Boola
v
Radakissen & Chomroo Metre
Noted at page 122 in this Book, which was made absolute on that day April 6th 1778, when Chambers seems by my Note not to have been then come into Court. He now says he thinks it right to hear motions to put off trials at the Sittings.