 | 1806 - 504 pages
...entrusted to you, if an action be brought against you for any act done by you officially, you may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence; and, if a verdict be tbund for you, or the plaintiff be nonsuit, or discontinue, you are entitled to double... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Constables - 1803 - 140 pages
...Constable for any act done by virtue of his office, he, and all others acting under him, may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, and if he recovers he shall have double costs. 21 James I. cap. 5. ESCAPES. A Constable permitting a felon... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...action »hall be brought against a justice for any thing done by virtue of his office, he may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if he recover, he sliall have double costs. Such action shall not be laid but in the county where the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Fisheries - 1812 - 710 pages
...Queen Mary, it shall and may be lawful to and for the person or persons so sued or prosecuted to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if a verdict shall pass for the defendant, or the plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or suf- AD iris. fer... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 496 pages
...of peace, constable, <fyc. for any thing of hi* done by virtue or reason of his office, he may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and, if the verdict shall pass with the defendant in such action, or the plaintiff become nonsuit, or suffer... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 1010 pages
...justice of peace, constable, S[c. for any thing done by virtue or reason of his office, he may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and, if the verdict shall puss with the defendant in such action, or the plaintiff become nonsuit, or suiter... | |
 | South Carolina, Joseph Brevard - 1814 - 620 pages
...act, or for doing any matter or thing pursuant thereunto, such person or persons shall or may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, and if the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be non-suited, or judgment be given. against him or them upon demurrer,... | |
 | William Toone - Forms (Law) - 1817 - 932 pages
...256. •• .1 • '•• Of his Protection. cotinty where offence committed: to which he may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, and if he recover he shall have doable costs ; this extends also to his deputy. Cromp. JP 2O1. 21 Jac. I.... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - Criminal law - 1819 - 582 pages
...this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the person or persons so sued or prosecuted to plead the General Issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant, or the Plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or suffer a discontinuance,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 852 pages
...must be laid in the county in which the cause of action occurred (q). The defendant may also plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if the plaintiff do not recover, the defendant shall have double costs (r). But a secretary of state and... | |
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Action may plead the General Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence; and if upon such Action... 
