Boyer v. Roberts

1 Cranch 73 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia | 1802

No civil cause is to be tried, except by consent, unless it has stood one term at issue.

Mr. Peacock, for the defendant,

moved for a continuance on the rule of the court, that no cause should be forced to .trial unless it had stood one term at issue; and on that ground the cause was continued.