The point in this case is a narrow one, and concerns only the practice in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama.
It appears that in 1821 an act was passed by the legislature of that State to abolish fictitious proceedings in ejectment; and to substitute in their place the action of trespass, for the purpose of trying the...
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