Rich v. Trimble
Supreme Court of Vermont
DECLARATION in case upon a special promise made to the plaintiff Lucretia when sole. The plaintiffs declare, that the said Lucretia, when sole, had an illegitimate child born of her body, of which the defendant was the father, and by the law of nature and the land was obligated to aid and assist in its maintenance; in consideration whereof he promised the said Lucretia when sole, to wit, on the 5th of March, 1799, to pay her at the rate of one dollar per week, for each and…
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DECLARATION in case upon a special promise made to the plaintiff Lucretia when sole. The plaintiffs declare, that the said Lucretia, when sole, had an illegitimate child born of her body, of which the defendant was the father, and by the law of nature and the land was obligated to aid and assist in its maintenance; in consideration whereof he promised the said Lucretia when sole, to wit, on the 5th of March, 1799, to pay her at the rate of one dollar per week, for each and every week that she should nurse, nurture, tend, support, maintain and take charge of said child during its infancy ;…
1Opinion of the Court
Tyler, Assistant Judge.
The State statutes provide for the taking the depositions of witnesses out of the State, to be used in the Judicial Courts within it, and the deposition of the subscribing witness might have been taken in this case.
The term " process f as commonly applied, intends that proceeding by which a party is called into Court, but it has a more enlarged signification, arid includes all the proceedings of the Court from the beginning to the end of a suit, and is defined in the books, “ processus ; a procedendo ab initio usque ad finem.” And in this view all proceedings which may…
2Cited by1 opinion
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