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Jurisdictions; for if this action should lie, there would be in effect no remedy for small Debts between 5# and 40 Shil:. For in my own experience I have observ’d, that where Suits are commenc’d in the Superior Court for such small Debts, the Attorney oftentimes recovers the Debt and receives the money; but when the Plaintiff expects to have the money of the Attorney, he instead of that receives a Bill from his attorney, by which (beside the Debt recover’d) he is a Debtor to the Attorney.
The constant Practice of inferior Courts to issue Receipts of Capias without Summons I think such an abuse of their Franchise, that perhaps it will be a Forfeiture of it. I know no other method to remedy it.