Spence v. Brunow’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “prescription may be pleaded before the Supreme Court when the proof of it appears on the face of the proceeding in the lower court. But the party to whom it is opposed shall have the privilege of demanding that the cause be remanded for trial upon that plea.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 635 So. 2d 742 - Blanchard v. Southern Pacific Transp. Co.