¶1Pri/oilege of freeholders.
¶2The privilege of freeholders to be sued by summons extends to actions of trespass vi el armis.
¶3Trespass vi et armis. Capias, returnable to this term. Sowell moved to quash the writ, the defendant being a freeholder.
¶4Millegan
¶5objected, that this was a case excepted by the act; a fine being due to the commonwealth, upon the judgment capiatur pro fi/ne, in actions vi et armis. But, by—
¶7The practice has been long settled under this act. Unless it is a suit on a recognisance, or for a fine actually due to the state, we cannot take up a mere fiction, to defeat a positive privilege.