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KEPPELE verʃus WILLIAMS.

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Venire had iffued, and the Jury was fummoned : the Plaintiff forbade the Sheriff to bring the Jury to the Court.–On the day of trail, the Plaintiff's Attorney oppofed it, and advifed the Sheriff to deliver it into Court.

The Jury alfo attended upon the application of Defendant's Attorney. The Court was then moved for their direction.

They took the Venire and called for the pannell.–The CHIEF JUFTICE quoting the following authorities, to fhew, that it would be a contempt to pocket the Venire.–Comb.303. 4 Mod 367. Vis. Abr. Tit. Trial 329.

The Plaintiff then moved to continue the caufe which was allowed, Defendant having no provifo rule.

Defendant then moved for a provifo rule, to which Plaintiff objected, and made affidavit of the abfence of a material witnefs, and fervice of a fubpœna,, on which the motion dropt. ​

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ERE terminate all the decifions, previoufly to the Revolution, which I have been able to collect. For the Cafes, from the firʃt Page to the clofe of the ʃeventeenth, I am indebted to the Honorable EDWARD SHIPPEN, Eʃquire ; who obligingly permitted me to publifh them from his manufscript, in the poffeffion of Mr. Burd. The reft of the Cafes, through the kindnefs of the Attorney-General, I have had an opportunity of extracting from the Note Book of the deceafed Joʃeph Reed, Efquire, formerly Prefident of this State.

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