Case Name: Lydia Bachelor versus her Husband, William Bachelor
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1804-11
Citations: 1 Will. 194
Docket Number: 
Parties: * Lydia Bachelor versus her Husband, William Bachelor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 194–194

Head Matter:
* 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.)

Opinion:
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.