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Case No. 15,339.
    UNITED STATES v. HEDGES.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 43.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1812.
    Seal ox Justice’s Warraxt.
    The word ‘‘seal” in a scroll is a seal to a justice's warrant. Quaere.
    Indictment for assault and battery upon Bates, a constable, in the execution of a justice’s warrant for debt. The warrant had only a printed scroll and the word ‘‘seal,” thus (SEAL).
    Mr. F. S. Key, for defendant, objected that it was not a seal.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief J udge.]
    
   THE COURT

(FITZHUGH. Circuit Judge, absent!

said that in this part of the country it is a seal according to common usage. Quaere.