Little v. Dickinson
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Complaint, under the bastardy act, in which it is alleged that the child was begotten in Lyman, a town in the Western Judicial District, in said county.
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Complaint, under the bastardy act, in which it is alleged that the child was begotten in Lyman, a town in the Western Judicial District, in said county. The order of the magistrate before whom the respondent was brought, on the 8th day of November, 1853, was, that the respondent give bond to the complainant to appear at the court of common pleas then next to be holden at Plymouth, in and for the Eastern Judicial District, on the third Tuesday of November, then instant, and there answer to the said complaint and abide the order of the court thereon. The respondent gave bond according to the…
1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.
The seventeenth chapter of the Compiled Statutes provides for the division of the State into counties, and gives their boundaries. The twelfth section of the chapter enacts that the county of Grafton shall be divided into two judicial districts, to be known by the names of the Eastern and Western judicial districts of the county of Grafton. The thirteenth and fourteenth sections enumerate the several towns comprising those two respective districts; and the town of Lyman, where this complaint was made,, and where the offence was alleged to have been committed, is in the Western district.
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- Marston v. JennessSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1840