The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner].

  • John Holt
Date:
1764
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Credit: The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ced by the 1 Cowpers, went to the Under-fheriff with the Infant, and demanded of him the Writ of Appeal, who delivered it accordingly, where¬ upon the Writ was burnt, and fo loft.” <c In this k Cafe, the Year being expired, they could not have a new Writ of Courfe, and there¬ fore, afterwards, in the Vacation before 1 Trinity Term, 1701, 13 Will. 3. a Petition was prefer¬ red to Sir Nathan Wright, 1 lately made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, to have a new Writ of Appeal granted. Bat upon the Hearing of Council on both Sides, more than fix Hours before him, affifted by Lord Chief jufiice Treb\\ the Lord Chief Baron Ward, and Mr. Jufiice Powel, (whom my Lord Chief Jufiice, Holt fent in his Place) and Sir John Trevor, the Matter of the Rolls; by the unanimous Opinion of them all, the Petition was rejected. Some, k efpecially Treby, alledging for Reafon, that an Appeal was a revengeful odious Profecution, and therefore deferved no Incouragement, upon which Qccafion Holt, with great Vehemence and Zeal, faid, “ he wondered that any Engliflman fhould brand an Appeal with the Name of an m odious iProfecution, for his Part, he looked upon it to be a noble 11 Remedy, and a true Badge of the Englifh Rights and Liberties,, and referred to the Statute ofGloucefler, Chap. 9. [6 Edw. 1. 1278.J° and 1 Mod. Rep. 12 Vol. P. 373. k Mod. Rep. 12 Vo]. P. 375. 1 Lord Raym. Rep. P. 537. m Lord Raym. and Mod. as laffc above? n Lord Raym. as lait above. * 2 Injf. 279.