Sikes v. Ransom

The application is entirely new; and it becomes a question whether this court can interfere when a court below refuses to seal a bill of exceptions. The books do not furnish much light on this subject. The practice, in England, under the statute of Westm. 2. (of which ours is a copy) seems to be, to apply to the court of chancery, for a writ grounded upon the statute. The form of the writ is to be found in the Register; (182. a.) and Lord Redesdale, in the-case of Lessee of Lawlor v. Murray, (1 Sch. and Lefroy, 75.) calls it a mandatory writ, “ a sort of prerogative writthat the iudo-es - " „…