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Elizabeth Slymbridge's Case

Maclean & Robinson's Appeal Cases English Reports Cited authorities 2 Cited in Precedent Map Related
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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1791
Date01 January 1791
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 79 E.R. 304

IN THE KING'S BENCH.

Elizabeth Slymbridge's Case

case 13. elizabeth SLyMBRiDOE's case. If a prisoner in execution be in danger of death, as a woman with child ready to lie-in, the Court of King's Bench may admit her to bail. 5 Mod. 455. 1 Sid. 78. Bulst. 85. Palm. 558. 2 Burr. 1099. 3 Burr. 1363. Holt, 8."). 2 Hawk. P. C. 175, 176. 10 Mod. 334. Stra. 49. 543. Cowp. 333. 2 Ter. Rep. 390. Elizabeth Slymbridge, upon a special sitpplicavit out of the Chancery, was com- CRO.JAC.M7. MICHAELMAS TEEM, 12 JAC. 1. IN B. E. 305 raitted to prison for want of sureties; and upon suggestion to the Court that she bad teen imprisoned for divers weeks, and was big with child, arid would be in danger of death if ahe should not be enlarged. Coke, Chief Justice, said, that they at their discretion might let her to bail upon common or mean bail, to prevent the peril of death to her or her infant. And he produced a precedent in 14 Edvv. 3. pi. . where one being in execution for debt, was discharged because he had been long in prison and decrepit, and so old and stricken in years that he could not long continue ; and these reasons entered upon the roll: and another precedent in Easter term, 40 Edw. 3. in...

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