Thruston v. Commonwealth

A statute of 1833,(1 Statute Law, 497,) provides that there shall be three terms of the Jefferson Circuit Court “f°r the trial of common law causes;” two terms “for the trial of chancery causes;” five terms “for the trial of pleas of the commonwealth;” and that during any one 0f the common law terms, “motions to dissolve in- . . , . . , , , , . . junctions and restraining orders may be made and tried, an¿ ap orders and steps taken for the preparation of r r r chancery causes for hearing.”

*225At the March common law term, 1833, first succeeding the foregoing enactment, Samuel Young was recognized…