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Updated: May 24, 2025
Shakespeare alludes to "the score and the tally" in his Henry VI; and this mode of keeping accounts is still adopted by some of the bakers and dyers in Warwickshire and Cheshire. And tallies are occasionally produced in the small-debt courts, where they are admitted as authentic proofs of debt. Hence the origin and name of the "tally court of the exchequer."
"It may be so, Hector," said the Antiquary, who seldom agreed with any person in the immediate proposition which was laid down "it may possibly be so in this and some other instances; but at present the country resembles the suitors in a small-debt court, where parties plead in person, for lack of cash to retain the professed heroes of the bar.
He reformed civil procedure in the way of making it uniform, and introducing a system of small-debt courts. By RT. REV. HENRY CODMAN POTTER, BISHOP OF NEW YORK A complete biography of St.
The wild rude Sincerity, direct from Nature, is not glib in answering from the witness-box: in your small-debt pie-powder court, he is scouted as a counterfeit. The vulpine intellect "detects" him. For being a man worth any thousand men, the response your Knox, your Cromwell gets, is an argument for two centuries whether he was a man at all.
"It may be so, Hector," said the Antiquary, who seldom agreed with any person in the immediate proposition which was laid down "it may possibly be so in this and some other instances; but at present the country resembles the suitors in a small-debt court, where parties plead in person, for lack of cash to retain the professed heroes of the bar.
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