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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 2,326.
    CALVERT v. SLATER.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 44.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1801.
    Practice — Extending Time to Plead.
    Simms, for plaintiff.
    Gantt, for defendant
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   If the defendant on the plea-day demand oyer which is not given until the subsequent term, the court will give the defendant time to plead after oyer.

Debt on bond. A rule to plead had been laid on the defendant at last term. On the. plea-day the defendant prayed oyer of the bond, which being now given, the court'enlarged the rule until Monday next.