When a certiorari issues, the adverse party has noticé to appear on the return day of the certiorari, and if the writ is not then returned, nor any proceedings *485had to continue it in court, it is like other writs tinued, and a procedendo ought to issue. Here is clearly a discontinuance, therefore let a discontinuance be entered, and a procedendo issue to the court below.
Anonymous, 2 N.C. 484, 1 Hayw. 484 (1796)
Oct. 1796
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North Carolina Superior Court
2 N.C. 484, 1 Hayw. 484
Anonymous.
s Holmes had obtained a judgment in the County Court, and Butler having stated in an affidavit some causes of com plaint against the judgment, had procured a certiorari’ to issue returnable to this term, only two terms having first intervened.