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to avoid all the Niceties of Pleadings.

The Court were all three of the Judges concurring, of Opinion the Notice was sufficient, to admit Evidence to be given on it as a compleat Justification if it should be proved by the Witnesses, and not meerly in Extenuation of the Offence and in Diminution of the Damages.
/ [ILL]