It was held by
seemed to incline thereto) that the statute 21 Jac. 1 c. 4. p. 365, does not restrain suits on pœnal statutes, in the King’s Bench, because that court is not named in it.
Anonymous, 1 N.C. 192, 1 Mart. 192 (1793)
1793
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United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
1 N.C. 192, 1 Mart. 192
* Anonymous.
Pasch. 2 Car.
AN action was brought in London, in the sheriff's court there, on the statute 3 and 4 Ed. 6, for buying and selling cattle. The court held it bad; and the party being removed here by habeas corpus, was discharged. The suit being on a pœnal statute, ought to have been in the Court of Sessions of the Justices of the Peace.