Ac etiam

The introduction to the statement of the real cause of action in cases where it was necessary to allege a fictitious cause in order to give the Court jurisdiction The ac etiam clause appears to have been invented in consequence of the enactment of 13 Car. 2,S.1, C.2, that the particular cause of action must be expressed in the writ where more than 40! Was claimed. Davison v. Forest, [1802] 2 East,305. [Whart.] 

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