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1781. 1 Term. [Friday] Feb. 2.

particular case of the Sheriff, it may have been determined, for convenience, that Service in the Office is sufficient: and a rule having Issued from the office, it may have been determined that it shall be sufficient to prove Service of it, and that it shall be presumed to have Issued regularly.
When Impey came into Court, I ask’d in Conversation between ourselves, whether he thought the Rule ought to have been personally served, and he said yes, because it was a criminal Process.

Rex
v
Mark Wood.
A Writ of Habeas Corpus had been Issued by my Order, to Captain Mark Wood to bring the body of Sookmoy Sircar immediately before me or any other of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal at the Court House.
Mr. Brix, Now moved on an affidavit of the Service of the Writ, for a Rule on Mr. Wood to return the Writ, a Certificate
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