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  "id": 8684503,
  "name": "William Bridges, jun. v. Lawrence Smith",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bridges v. Smith",
  "decision_date": "1811-07",
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  "first_page": "53",
  "last_page": "54",
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "parties": [
      "William Bridges, jun. v. Lawrence Smith."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "By the Comer.\nThe staiute of 31st Elizabeth, ch. 5, is in force in this State, and bars the Plaintiff's right of action.\nThis case occurred in 1806, and the Court resorted to the statute of Elizabeth, because at that time the General Assembly had passed no general act limiting' the time for bringing penal actions. In 1S08, they passed \u201c An act to limit penal actions,5\u2019 in which it is declared, \u201c That all actions and suits to be brought on any penal act of the General Assembly, for the recovery of the penalty therein set forth, shall be brought within three jmars after the cause of such action or suit shall or may have accrued, and not after : Provided, that this act shall not affect the time of bringing suit on any peijal act of the General Assembly, which hath a time limited therein for bringing the same.\u201d",
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        "author": "By the Comer."
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    "head_matter": "William Bridges, jun. v. Lawrence Smith.\nFrom Northampton.\nThe statute of 31st Elizabeth, ch. 5, limiting the time for bringing qni tam actions, is in force in this State.\nThis was an action of debt, to recover the penally given by the act of 1741, ch. 11, to restrain the taking of usurious interest upon money loaned. The usury was received on the 15th of May, J80G, and the writ in this case was sued out on the 9th of December, 1807. The Defendant pleaded, among other pleas in bar, the stat. of 31,st Eliz. ch.* 5, limiting the time within which actions qui tarn shall be brought; and the Jury found for the Plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court, whether that statute of Elizabeth be in force in this state ? The. question was sent to this Court; and,"
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