Respublica v. Campbell

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United States Reports, Volume 1 {1 Dall.}
Supreme Court of the United States
1406103United States Reports, Volume 1 {1 Dall.}Supreme Court of the United States

RESPUBLICA verʃus CAMPBELL.

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HIS was an inquifition of Forcible Entry &c. taken before two Juftices of Lancaʃter country. The proceedings being removed by certiorari into this Court, Bradƒord now moved that they might be quafhed; and fhewed for caufe, that the Defendant is ftated in the inqueft to have been poʃʃeʃʃed, but no eftate, or term is laid ; which, he fail, was adjudged to be infufficient in a cafe of Reʃpublica verʃus Scott, the Court there obferving that Hawkins was exprefs, that an inquifition of Forcible Entry &c will not lie in the cafe of a tenant at will.
by the court: Let the proceedings be quafhed.