The Act of Assembly, expresly directs that the process, to be issued against a freeholder, shall be a Summons. Upon the writ which has issued in this case, the Defendant must be arrested before his appearance can be accepted; and it might hereafter be doubled, under our Act of Assembly, whether in submitting, even upon those terms, to the Capias, he has not forterred his privilege to be sued...
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