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replevin is to recover back property in specie
taken under exection by a Sheriff or constab
le. tresspass vi et armis is to recover damages comm-
tted on for an injury committed with force and
violence: this action however lies for offences
which are accompanied by neither force nor violence.
Such is a hasty outline of the actions at law.
by whose bringing the proper ones of which, all
persons may redress their grievances.
June 3rd Sat. 1837— Retrospective I bid my pen.
Thursday 1st June in the afternoon we complied
with our neighbour and friend Lewis's invitation,
by go to a wedding party at his house in further
[cell] for an action of his son Denison's marriage.
A very neat party this, the party was compos-
ed principally of young people and though
not a packed company (so odious to a neighbourhood)
yet the guests generally may be said to be select.
Several pretty young ladies and likely young gen-
tlemen. The supper does not credit to Mrs. Lewis,
much cost and pains had been taken to decorate it.
The wedding cakes were all on top bespangled with
coriander and almond sugared of variegated hues,
red, white, and blue, the circumference of snowy
white. After all the trouble taken, this party was
very interesting which was owing to a want of sys-
tem in the arrangment of the company for enj
oyment. It was sadly deficient in that pleasure
which gentlemen and ladies impart to, and recieve
from one another on such occaisions. The ladies,
several beautiful and accomplished in one room,
and the gentlemen in another, in the porch or
out doors. In the mean time the waiters, under
whose management all this is to be attributed,
were waiting on those at table, (for there were
many tables full after the ladies, most of them,
had retired from supper.) The nights being short
the older people were for going home and what was
distressing, would carry their lovely daughters with them,
before all were done supper. So by the time supper
was over there were but few though still a goodly
were left. And it is well known that, when one