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34. Which is the ame um, or three marks, that bounded the juridiction of the antient Gothic courts in their lowet intance, or fierding-courts, o called becaue four were intituted within every uperior ditrict: or hundred. But the proceedings on a writ of right may be removed into the county court by a precept from the heriff called a tolt, "quia tollit atque eximit cauam e curia baronum ". And the proceedings in all other actions may be removed into the uperior courts by the king's writs of pone, or accedas ad curiam, according to the nature of the uit. After judgment given, a writ alo of fale judgment lies to the courts at Wetminter to rehear and review the caue, and not a writ of error; for this is not a court of record: and therefore in all thee writs of removal, the firt direction given is to caue the plaint to be recorded, recordari facias loquelam.

court is only a larger court-baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred intead of a manor. The free uitors are here alo the judges and the teward the regitrar, as in the cae of a court baron, It is likewie no court of record; reembling the former in all points, except that in point of territory it is of a greater juridiction. This is aid by ir Edward Coke to have been derived out of the county court for the eae of the people, that they might have jutice done to them at their own doors, without any charge or los of time : but it's intitution was probably co-eval with that of hundreds themelves, which were formerly oberved to have been introduced though not invented by Alfred, being derived from the polity of the antient Germans. The centeni, we may remember were the principal inhabitants of a ditrict compoed of different villages, originally in number an hundred, but afterwards only

l Finch. 248. m Stiernhook ''de jure Goth. l''. 1. c. 2. n F.N. 6.3,4. See append. No. 1. §. 2. o 3 Rep. Pref. p See append, No. 1. §. 3. q F.N.B. 4. 70. Finch. L. 444, 445. r F. N. B. 18. s Finch. L. 248. 4 Int. 267. t 2 Int. 71. v Vol. I. introd. §. 4. Rh