2o8 ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



responding to six reports where judgment was given, four 

 of which belong to the group of contract cases, in addition 

 to the judgments included in the figures given above. In 

 the first of these four, an action for retention, judgment is 

 for the defendant, on the ground of the minority of the 

 servant;^ in the second, an action for retention and de- 

 parture, for the defendants, on the same ground ; - in the 

 third, an action for the departure of two servants, for 

 the defendants, on the ground that tliere should have been 

 two writs instead of one ; in the fourth, an exactly similar 

 action, a similar judgment.' Of the two cases in 

 which the judgment although asked is not recorded, one 

 is an action for retention in which the defendants ask 

 for judgment on the plea of another action pending 

 between the same parties for the same cause ; * the 

 other is also an action for retention, in which the de- 

 fendant asks for judgment on the ground that the ordin- 

 ance does not apply to contracts for a term longer than a 

 year/ In the nine cases where judgment is recorded, the 

 details are as follows: in three departure cases, the judg- 

 ment is for the plaintiff, on admission of guilt by the de- 

 fendant ; ® in four departure cases, for the defendant, be- 



' Case 12, list in app.; <"/. p. 185, note 3; also p. IQS, note 4. 



^Case 27, list in app.; cf. ut supra. 



'Cases 19 and 37, list in app.; the latter is wortled as follows: " et 

 f'l.it demaunde judgement de brief . . . le covenant de lun nest pas le 

 covenant de lautre, ne le service, et per consequens, le departure de lun 

 nest pas le departer lauter." 



*Case 2, list in app. 



^Case 31, app., F, 4, and s. 5. p. 192. 



*De Banco, 33, Mich., 161, Northants; fine of 2s. for defendant, 

 laborarius. Ibid., 34, Hill., 195 d, Lond(?). (the defendant is allutar- 

 ins) . " Ita consideratum est quod predictus Ricardus Freman (plaintifif) 

 habeat predictum Ricardum Perre, seruientem suum, de sibi seruiendo 

 per tempus supradictum in ofiacio prediclo in forma predicta . . . venit 



