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the lord chancellor, the cause shall be dismissed with 

 costs,, and a &quot; procedendo&quot; to be granted. 



20. No injunction of any nature shall be granted, 

 revived, dissolved, or stayed upon any private petition. 



21. No injunction to stay suits at the common 

 law shall be granted upon priority of suit only, or 

 upon surmise of the plaintiff s bill only ; but upon 

 matter confessed in the defendant s answer, or mat 

 ter of record, or writing plainly appearing, or when 

 the defendant is in contempt for not answering, or 

 that the debt desired to be stayed appeareth to be 

 old, and hath slept long, or the creditor or the 

 debtor hath been dead some good time before the 

 suit brought. 



22. Where the defendant appears not, but sits 

 an attachment ; or when he doth appear, and de 

 parts without answer, and is under attachment for 

 not answering ; or when he takes oath he cannot 

 answer without sight of evidences in the country; 

 or where after answer he sues at common law by 

 attorney, and absents himself beyond sea ; in these 

 cases an injunction is to be granted for the stay of 

 all suits at the common law, until the party answer 

 or appear in person in court, and the court give far 

 ther order : but nevertheless upon answer put in, if 

 there be no motion made the same term, or the next 

 general seal after the term, to continue the injunc 

 tion in regard of the insufficiency of the answer put 

 in, or in regard of matter confessed in the answer, 

 then the injunction to die and dissolve without any 

 special order. 



