"But to return from this digression. Lord A--, the defendant in that
cause, was so conscious of the strength and merits of his injured
nephew's case, and that a verdict would go against him, that he
ordered a writ of error to be made out before the trial was ended;
and the verdict was no sooner given, than he immediately lodged
it, though he well knew he had no manner of error to assign. This
expedient was practised merely for vexation and delay, in order
to keep Mr. A-- from the possession of the small estate he had
recovered by the verdict, that, his slender funds being exhausted,
he might be deprived of other means to prosecute his right; and by
the most oppressive contrivances and scandalous chicanery, it has
been kept up to this day, without his being able to assign the
least shadow of any error.
"Lord A-- was not the only antagonist that Mr. A-- had to deal
with; all the different branches of the A-- family, who had been
worrying one another at law ever since the death of the late earl
of A--, about the partition of his great estate, were now firmly
united in an association against this unfortunate gentleman; mutual
deeds were executed among them, by which many great lordships and
estates were given up by the uncle to persons who had no right to
possess them, in order to engage them to side with him against his
nephew, in withholding the unjust possession of the remainder.
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