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1 Super. Ct. Jud. 106

Ballard v. McLean

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided August 15, 1764

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1764-08-15

THIS was a Writ of Review. McLean was called, of Milton, but it was fully proved that he did not belong to Milton.

Relies on Hall v. Gardner

Decided 1764-08-15

Justices Lynde, Cushing & Oliver

¶1for abating it.(1)

¶2Ch. Justice. Abstracted from the Custom, I see no Reason why it should abate.

¶3(1) Where a writ of review was improvidently issued, without notice to the opposite party, the Court ordered a hearing, but resused to quash the writ, because, the three years having elapsed, the plaintiff would thereby lose his right to bring another petition. Clap v. Joslyn, 1 Mass. 133. And in Brewer v. Sibley, 13 Met. 177, it is intimated that in case of review “ it would be reasonable to reftrict the defence to the merits.”

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