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PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA. 
 
 COURT OF APPEALS. 
 
 JOSKPH MAURICE, lalio, LA PANTAISIE Ap.^ll.kt. 
 
 V. 
 
 The Honourable JAMES MONK 
 
 Respondent. 
 
 In Appeal from a Judgement of Dzfnd/fd tn the Court of Kinc\ 
 Benckforthe D./lrict of Montreal, rn a Caufe there, in .kuk le 
 abovenan^ed Appdlant lofeph Maurice alias La Fanta.fie, roas the Plain. 
 Ujf, and the abovcnamed Refpondcnt, Jams Monk, rcas the Defendant, 
 
 RESPONDENTS CASE. 
 
 tlutDistnct. fortheRecovervof twor.v„al Pennl £^1^ r / ' "^^ '"' 
 neglected to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus dire ae " I, r - t "'"^ "'"'"'•■' " 
 
 Body of the PlaintlfF. who was detained in h i C 1 H x." '' '° ''"^ "^ ''= 
 
 K-V.iro. as Secretary to Hi, Excel, J hcte^!^^^^^^ ^ '^^"°"' 
 
 -.ned. and ... i. the Paper annexed to ZZ^^^, ^^^ ^^ l^T^'' 
 
 The Declaration, dnttd iTth Novprnher laio ■ r ■ . 
 Chap. 1. Sections ird and lOt . La 1' ,'';.; '"t;" 4 °'"''""" °' '* ^•^°- '« 
 Maurice c,f the Parin> of St. feanne. 1 IHe P 1 7;! """;"' ^^^''^ ''''"-" '^''"'''^'^ ^'^''^P'^ 
 
 Gaol for the fa.d D.ftrict of Montreal, by Gwyn Owen Radford, then Gaoler of t" Id Z 
 
 led '"the fame. And merens, afterwards, in Vacation and om of Term, to wit ll>h of r, 
 Month November, he the faid Plaintiff being Oil. fo detained and conHne i he a PH^„ 
 
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 out of Term, to wit. the Day and Year lart afo..en>id, by ^tl ^^Z:^:^'^^ T' 
 |a.fi^appea... and con.plained to the Defendant, thci and aill b^ 2^^^^ o ml M ^^^ 
 laid Court of Kn^'s Bench f.r thp n;/>-;o f m , . o -" ^' J'"r.ceot Uib l\];,jpfly ., 
 
 n^ent and Confinement md ll and V.^^^^r^ of and co,.,. , .,in, his f„id In.prlfo.- 
 
 ant the l^id Copy 7Z ^Z::1 7c ''''' "' """' " "^ "-^ '" "^ '-' '^^f^-'- 
 
 .ting the jLpyby ^s" :r ^^7;:;:i:'~; ^^v" '7^ "-'- 
 
 Name of Jofeph La F.imaifie d„lv n, i i , °. ^ """ "'^ ''"^ Plamii.}. by and under the 
 
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 a.,d cLfchsrscd frc^, l.i, faid Conr,n.mcnt, and the Cud nefer.d.nt then and there had vle^v of 
 the Ciid Copy of.^)f (.,id Warrant of Comnutnient and Detainer, and of the faid rcquelt In 
 writmg :_AVi;.7-//:v/m, the faid Dcfc-ndant, not regarding the Duty of his OlKce as Chief J„f- 
 ticeof IlisMajestys Court of King'-, Bcndi for the Dilhict of Montrral, nor th- L.ws and Hu 
 tutesof thiilVovinceof Lower Canada, nor the Pains and Penalties .herein contained, did not 
 nor wouhl upon view of the laid Copy of thr faid Commitment and of the faid Reqneft in w,i 
 t.ng, award or grant His MajeiVy's Writ of Hahea, Corpu,, by La,v reqnlrej to be granted in 
 n.ch Cafe, hut on tl,e contrary, then and iherc.Meni...d fuch Writ of Habeas Corpus by the Law 
 in fuch Cale nrov.ded, required to be granted, and then and there wholly and abfoiute!y neglected 
 and refufcd and om.tted to grant the fame to the Plaintiff, contrary to t„e Ordinance or L iw ind 
 Statute n. such Cafe made and provided. 11%-r.iy, and by force of the Ordinance the faid Defen/,, /' 
 forfeited the Sum of ^^^00 Lawful Money of (Jreat IJritain, equal to ^-,5,5 : 1 1 : I J- Currency 
 of Lower Canada, and allegina that by virtue of the fame Ordi.iance, Law or Statute an Afti..., 
 hath accrued to the Plaintiff to demand and haveof tl>e faid Defendant, b.ing fuch Chief Juflice 
 as aforefaid. the faid Sum of ^,500 Lawful Money of Great Britain parcel of the Sum deman.led 
 by the Declaration. 
 
 The Second Count of the Declaration appears not to differ materially from the Firft Count, 
 except by stating the obtaining of the Copy of the Warrant, and the Application to the Defend- 
 ant, as Chief Juftice, to have been made on the IGth of November 1812, inftead of the 14tU 
 of November Is 12, as in the faid Firfl Count. 
 
 The Third and Fourtli Counts differ only from each other in the fame manner as the Firft and 
 Second, namely, with regard to the Day, the former ftating the Applicatiop. to be on the Uth, 
 and the latter on the H-th of November 181'2-But they both of them differ from the F>rlt and 
 Second refpectiveiy, in the following Particulars, viz:_That inftead of Hating the Requeft to 
 have been for a Habeas Corpus " nlun.ai/, imnmliat:-," thefe two Counts fhte, the Application to 
 have been lor His Majefty's Writ of Habeas Corpus " hy the La-w in that Case m,vle and l^rovided re. 
 quired to, I granted in such Case;' and in omitting the ulterior Part of the Requeft, » that he the 
 said Plaintiff might '" ^'i'' due course of Laiv be liberated ami discharged fr.m his Confinement." 
 
 The Uhimate Demand in the Declaration is for the Sum of TwoThoufand Pounds Sterling 
 being the Agregate of the four Penalties o* ^OOO each, (bted in the four Antecedent Counts of 
 the Dedaration-but of which the Plaintiff feeks to recover, as we undcrftand, only two, viz: 
 one for an Offence fuppofed to have been committed on the 14th, and another for a fimilar Ol. 
 fence fuppofed to have been committed on the ICth November 18 15}. 
 
 There appears to have been fylcd with this Declaration, three Exhibits, viz :-iftly, Copy of 
 the Warrant of Commitment (No. 3 in th^ Record ) '^d;y, t!.e Plaintiff's Petition t'o the De- 
 fendant as Chief Juftice (No. 1 in the Record,) md Mdiy, tl.e Writ of Habea, Corpus with 
 Blanks, which was tendered with the above m otnined Petition (No. 5 in the Record.) 
 
 To the above Declaration the Defendant pVaded a Dfense au Fonds en Fait, ftating, That he 
 was not guilty of the Ma.tev. nnd Thing, charged in the laid Declaration, nor had he forfeited 
 the fa.d leveral Sums of Money, or any Part thereof, nor was he indebted to the Plaintiff in Mar- 
 ner and Form, &c. 
 
 To the faid Df..se au Fonds en F.if, the Plaintiff fyled a Demurrer or Exception to the Form 
 of the faid Plea, m wn::h he alleged for Caufe of Demurrer, That the faid Plea did not fet 
 forth or contain an Am'wer to any r,f the Alle"ation ■ <-,■ In .t, r m n i 
 
 ,. ■ , , .. . ^ --ine^ation., &t. ,„ the faid Declaration mentioned, 
 
 nor U:d or could raife or torm a Lena! IlPie in tho ni i n r i l ..... 
 
 ... -ID, - ,. , ^ "^ '■'"' ^*"'^'' ='"'^ tl^at to the faid Declaration 
 
 which contained a Plea of Debt, tfie l)efei„i:,nf /If 1 . , . , ^ 
 
 . . , 14, o ,_,''"-'"'"" (''^ '"' n«a''t to plead the General IfTue) ought 
 
 he Ch '^'^'^''^ /';^r"' ''^' f ^'^'^ - - '><^i- ..f Z;,.-and concluding by reiterating 
 he Charg .n he Declaration, and alleging that the Defendant doth owe, &c. in Manner Jd 
 lorm as alleged in the f.iid Declaration. 
 
 The Defendant n.bsequently put in a General Anfwer or Joinder in Demurrer to fo much of 
 the forego.ng leading ..„. ,he Part nf the Plaintiff as confuted of an Exception or Det^urrer to 
 the J lea, and (ihie was accordingly thus joined in the Caufe. 
 
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It appear, thnt theCaufe was nftcrward, fetclown by the Plaintiff for Hearin<r «. Dr.., 
 the ne,n.rer which .a, acco.,in„y Heard on the .... of February ^ L difn iwl" 
 Colb upon fuch Hear.ng. on the 1 -Sth „f .he f,,ne Month, againft which oVn^iiTal 3 r 
 
 .ho w.ne..co„d^..b wa, ^^e^^ ::,:::i' ^ i^^.^^ ^ ^^ ^ 
 
 theEv.denceonthe6W,#.„/J.^„W,, „„ ,,,e ,oth, on wh.ch D,y the Caufe w T , 
 down hy the Plaintiff for .na, hearing on the Merits,which accordinjy tl'^^L on ^ ^ ^ 
 and on the ..h of June in the following Tern,, the Co'urt gave Judg.tnt of Dif.i^l w^hai'' 
 The R...SOVS OK Appk^l againa this Disn,iffal. as ftatcd by the Plaintiff in the Cou.t be- 
 Unv. vho .s now becon. the Appellant, are in Number >-but as .any of them are 1 J 
 Repetitions of others, they are all reducible to two, viz : ^ 
 
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 To thefe Reafons the Refpondent has filed a General Anfwer. 
 On the Pleadings 
 The Refl^ondent does not fi^e- it neceffary to n^ake any further Statenient here than merely to 
 f»b:n,t. That both according to the eftabliflied P.-.nciple., of Pleading and to thof. „f 
 Senfeand practical Logic the Plea is the correct Genera. Iffue to th Icl ratio b in aT^r 
 Negation to the Allegations which it contains._The Declaration ftt" t I D^^t 
 
 n.d,U he u ^cord.ngly Med to the Pl.i„tif in those Sun.s.-The Plea ftates. Th.t the DeZd 
 
 the P.a,nt:ff as alleged ,n the Derlarat:,,, ;-xhm traverHng and denyincthe Phintiff', All» .• 
 
 in the moll fimpie and direct Manner in vhe Order in which they occur ! K K ^ 
 
 be ftrictly in Conformity to the ordinary Rules. ^ "'^''^ "P^^^" '" 
 
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 The Me«,ts of the Case as deduced from the Evidence vnll be found 
 
 he as follows : 
 
 Itappea that in the beginning of Novemberl8J2. the Plaintiff and one Jean Parifien 
 ..^.. ...... ./ /.,.,„, >;,W. .Jested and guided the Er.en,y int. th.s Province, ..hen they Xw! 
 
 .he K.,g sTro^os at St. Reg., ^See Mr. M^Cord's Deposition, No. 20 /„ the Record-^ J „., ha- 
 vingbeenbrougt before the Governor at Montrenl. on W., the 8th November s 2 M 
 M Cord the Pohce Mag.ftrate not being to be found, they were by His Excellency's Or e l^dl 
 
 fonerB r IT'^^'T"'''"' ""'""'^' '''''''" '' ' '^'"'^^ ^^--' accompanied ct 
 
 o 1 B ynes he Adjutant Genera, and Mr. Brenton the Governor's Secretary, which latt r^t 
 ^v.th the Gaoler the Commitment, or rather the Letter of Recommendation following : 
 Mr. Radford, 
 
 Ji^lZsMlt '' ""'7;'"^ ''"' '""f ''""' '''"'"" '"'''"''' ^^ ^-"- -^ W '/- safi 
 until they shall be examined to-morrow at the Police Office. 
 
 T.ih K . f,i.r^, ^^ ^"^'' '^ "'" P^x"""''y "'^ Governor in Chief, 
 
 if the Keeper of the Goal, p p uptpkjTr^,^. ■' 
 
 Montreal. ^' ^' Ji^ENTOS^^th November \%\<i. 
 
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 The above Order was, as is ftated by Mr. Brenton in his Examination No. 23, in the Record 
 r.ot regarded as a Commitment for any Crime whatfoever. but merely as a Direction to^ 
 
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 try, Ihould return and examine them. 
 
 Shortly after^rd, the Plaintiff got a Copy of this Order, and Mr. Stuart his Advocate, frn.e 
 Days afterwards applied, not personally, but through the Medium f his Clerks, to the Defendant 
 Ch.e. JuftKe of Montreal, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for this Jofeph Maurice alias La Fa 
 
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Juft.c ac ord.ng y pcrcc.v.ng that the Gaoler', Certi.ic.re subfcribod to he Copy of thV Order 
 .^ru,..J, and that there was therefore nothing to rebutlhis IVefu.ption. n'lt ura /fc^t h" 
 Clerk, who apphed to h.n,, back again. W. OrJ.rs to ,.t .k, Crr,^..u lud with which A„ 
 wer hey returned to Mr. Stturt. This Gentienun. however, did^ot. it <bern.. choTfe to "t" 
 d. done, but on the contrary Tent hi, Clerk Mr. Grant again to the Chief Ju.ti^ oTl .^ 
 w,th the Note n,en.,oned m his DepoHtion, No. la. who however ftill perfiOed in mn, i , 
 
 the Certificate fl.ould be dated, and accordingly a.ain fen, him awa o jf H , ^ "/ "' 
 would grant the Writ:-W,.. ... a. J. c.L ^2 2 J .^^ t. 7! ''''^'' '' 
 .oiti so much Protrnty t, hav, dismif.d ^,th CoUs. '''^ "^^"""^ 
 
 othcrwife than by the Gaoler', Certificate, or b; Affi t ne.^hc f , r^'"' ''"^ ^'"' 
 ;. could of cour. do no otherwi.. than re J to ^^^r;:^: 1^:1:^:; ^ 
 
 ceeding h. been inrtituleJ J i.; ^f^^l^Zr^^^ T'''- T' "-''''' ""' ^-- 
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