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the Court will direct a Trial at Law, which may be tho no Jury can be impaneled because the Judges will do the office of a Jury.
Mr. A. then quotes
3 Keble [ILL] 259. and
1 Ventris 253. S. C:
The case is on the Stat: of Gaming (Car. 2.) but the books confirm the doctrine (in some degree) in 1 Hawkins 246 before quoted.
What proves this to be a loan & not a purchase is that one of the Obligors. Mr. Moote, was not then a Ptner and had no property in the