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of Pennylvania:

April Term, 1786.

HIS was a quetion on a writ of error, brought to revere a judgment in the Common Pleas of Philadelphia County againt the plaintiff in error, when within age. The record of the Court below, tated, that the defendant (now plaintiff) appeared in peron, imparled to the next term, and then appeared and aid nothing; wherefore, &c. The plaintiff attained his full age before he brought the writ of error.

Levy, for the plaintiff in error, cited 8 Mod. 185. Rep. temp. Hardw. 104. 376. 1 Bl. Com. 465. ''Cro. El.'' 569. 818. ''Lill. Ent.'' 252. 3. ''Bac. Abr.'' 149. But, as his arguments were afterwards admitted, and repeated by the Court, it is unneceary to inert them here.

Lewis, for the defendant in error. Infancy mut be tried by inpection, 3 Bl.Com. 331. By the record it is tated, that the plaintiff in error appeared twice; and the Court might then have tried the quetion of infancy by inpection, if he had uggeted it; fo that the is not at this time entitled to be relieved, 3 ''Bac. Abr.'' 123-134. 3 Bl. Com. 331. In all judicial proces, the error mut be revered before 21 years are attained for what is done in Court, though not for what is done in pais; as in the latter cae, a different mode of infancy is adopted, to wit, and inquet. 3 Bac