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

* Lydia Bachelor versus her Husband, William Bachelor.
    An order to give notice by publishing in a newspaper three weeks successively is complied with by publishing in such paper in three successive weeks, although there be not an interval of a week between either the first and second, or second and third publications.
    This was an application to sell real estate in the absence of the husband, 
       The entry was at a former term of the Court, and the order of notice was to be published in a newspaper [specified] three weeks successively. The notice was inserted in the paper pointed out, (it happening to be a paper which was issued from the press twice weekly,) first in the paper of Saturday, June 30th, secondly, Saturday, July 7th, and thirdly, Wednesday, July 11th.
    It was made a question whether the order had been complied with, because there was not an interval of a week between the second and third publications.
    
      
      
         See Act of Nov. 21, 1787, (stat. 1787, c. 32.)
    
   The Court (Dana, C. J., Sedgwick, and Sewall, justices,) held that the order had been substantially complied with. They said it was usual, however, to publish with an interval of a week, but that it was not strictly necessary. The publication has been made in three successive weeks, which is sufficient. The husband was called, and did not appear; and the prayer of the petition was granted.