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made no use of till the hearing.
1 Harrison’s Ch: Pract: 316 – of my Edition
“If the Defendant is doubtful, whether if he plead the matter of his Defence, the Plea will be allowed by the Court, he may shew the whole Matter by Answer, and then insist and rely on it, almost as if he had pleaded it, only he is not to call it his Plea, nor have the Benefit thereof till Hearing.”
Mr. W. Dunkin has relied much on the knowledge & implied approb— of the Cot of Drs, that also is Matter to be relied on at the hearing but it is expressly averred in