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  "id": 12139854,
  "name": "Button's case",
  "name_abbreviation": "Button's case",
  "decision_date": "1793",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "49",
  "last_page": "49",
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      "type": "nominative",
      "cite": "1 Mart. 49"
    },
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "1 N.C. 49"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "C.C.D.N.C.",
    "id": 17319,
    "name": "United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
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      "*Button\u2019s case."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Jones, J.\nPerhaps it is not necessary in this case, to, aver that the sheep were stolen, for a man may be prosecuted unjustly. A Justice of the Peace ought to suffer the law to have its course, which will give a remedy to the party grieved, and not to stay the proceedings privately. It is not his duty. Therefore it is a scandal to Mr. Button to say of him, as a Justice of the Peace: he desired me not to prosecute, &c. But here, for another reason, it seems, to me the words are not actionable; as it is not averred, that Mr. Button was a Justice of the Peace of the county in which those words were spoken; inasmuch as it is not against his office to endeavor to stay proceedings in a county in which he has nothing to do\u2014as a Justice of the Peace. P. El. 6. B. rot. 833, Novel\u2019s case. Poph. 180 1 Cr. 308. 342.",
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        "author": "Jones, J."
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    "head_matter": "*Button\u2019s case.\nTrin, 2. Car.\nOne said of Button, a Justice of the Place: Mr. Button, five or six years ago, had two servants prosecuted for stealing of sheep: and he desired me not to prosecute them.\nCrew moved in arrest of judgment that these words are not actionable: for an honest man may be prosecuted. Besides it is not averred that there were any sheep stolen. T. 36. El. B. R. Ball\u2019s case. He is a cunning knave, and acquainted with cut-purses; and there has not been a purse cut in Nottinghamshire these many years, but he hath had a part. These words are general and not actionable, unless it be alledged that there was a purse cut, specially. 45 El. B. R. rot. 119. He keeps thieves and traitors, not actionable, without alledging the very fact."
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