Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1826

Brookfield v. Jones

Brookfield v. Jones
Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided May 15, 1826
8 N.J.L. 384

Brookfield v. Jones

Opinion of the Court

The Court quashed the writ, because if bail can ever be required on a penal statute where not expressly allowed by the statute, on which point the court did not intimate an opinion, the plaintiff to be entitled to bail must have an order of the court or a judge unless the statute otherwise expressly provide; and by the 18th see. of the practice act, Rev. Laws 415, the first process in personal actions when the plaintiff is not entitled to bail shall be a summons.

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