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 traverse the taking by force of the warrant, but that there was not any such warrant; for if it were necessary that the arrest of the plaintiff should be by the same warrant that was mentioned before in the pleading that if the defendants had shewn in their plea another warrant than that which was shewn at the time of the arrest, the plaintiff ought not to have said, that he was not taken by this warrant but that there was not any such warrant. But the replication is not good in point of substance; for the plaintiff seems to intend, that the warrant by which he was arrested was unlawful, yet the plaintiff shall not have advantage of it, if there was another warrant which was lawful to take him at the same time; for if there are two warrants, the one lawful and the other unlawful, and the party is taken upon the illegal warrant, yet he who apprehends him may justify himself by the authority of the legal warrant; and this appears by the case Mich 34 Ed. 1 Fitz. Avowry, 232 cited 3 Co. 26. a. If a man takes a distress for a thing for which he has not good cause of distress, but had good cause of distress for another thing; if a replevin is brought, and he comes into court, he may avow for which thing he pleases. Then it was considered whether the plea of the defendants was good; to which it had been objected that it was ill for the uncertainty; for the cause of the commitment being traversable ought to be alleged with certainty. Secondly, That by the plea it appears, that the plaintiff was fined and imprisoned also; the censors (of the college of Physicians the defendants) have authority to impose a fine, and to imprison for non-payment of that fine, or they may imprison for the offence; but they cannot both fine and imprison for the same offence, as in this case; for it does not appear that the imprisonment was for non-payment of the fine but the plaintiff was both fined and imprisoned, and so was twice punished for one offence. Thirdly, the plea does not shew that the plaintiff was one of the college. Fourthly, The plea makes no answer to the assault; it does not shew that there was any assault, or set forth any justification of it.