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  "id": 12125481,
  "name": "GREGORY versus BRAY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gregory v. Bray",
  "decision_date": "1796-09",
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  "first_page": "39",
  "last_page": "40",
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      "type": "nominative",
      "cite": "1 Mart. 39"
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      "cite": "1 N.C. 39"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 22358,
    "name": "North Carolina Superior Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "GREGORY versus BRAY."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Stone J.\nIf the Court had any discretion to exercise, this would be a proper case to use it: but the act is positive.\nM\u2019Coy, J.\n-The act of assembly leaves the party in this case without a remedy. It is not in the power of the court to create one for him. It has been often adjudged so.\nHarris and Badger for the plaintiff. Martin for the defendant.\nThe judgment was affirmed absolutely.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Stone J. M\u2019Coy, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Harris and Badger for the plaintiff. Martin for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Newbern,\nSeptember Term, 1796.\nGREGORY versus BRAY.\nAPPEAL. The transcript of the record was carried up thirteen days before the Superior Court. 2, 1777, 2, 84, 314.\nThe judgment was affirmed, on the second day of the term; unless cause be shewn to the contrary, on the argument day.\nOn which day the defendant\u2019s affidavit was read, stating that the judgment had been obtained at the last session of Jones county court-that there were but thirty three days between the last day of that session and the first of this term\u2014that defendant was sick a bed on the day on which the transcript was to be carried up-that he came down in a boat, being unable to ride\u2014that he arrived time enough to file the transcript; but discovered on his landing that his pocket book which contained it, had been accidentally left behind\u2014that he returned immediately home and came back on the next day with the transcript, but was informed it could not be received, it being then one day too late\u2014that he came back on the next day, to advise with counsel and was directed to file the transcript, which he did-Whereupon he prayed that the cause might be placed on the trial docket."
  },
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