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(Law Fr. jecter, getter; Lat. projicere). In old English practice. To allege, offer, or present; to put forward. To cast an essoign was to allege an excuse for the failure of a party to appear in court, on the return of the original writ. 3 Steph. Comm. 659; 3 Bl. Comm. 278; Roscoe, Real Actions, 156. To cast a protection was to present or allege it as an excuse. Co. Litt. 128a. 130, 131; 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 406. This word is now used as a popular, rather than a technical, term, in the sense of to overcome, overthrow, or defeat in a civil action at law. Webster.

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(Law Fr. jecter, getter; Lat. projicere). In old English practice. To allege, offer, or present; to put forward. To cast an essoign was to allege an excuse for the failure of a party to appear in court, on the return of the original writ. 3 Steph. Comm. 659; 3 Bl. Comm. 278; Roscoe, Real Actions, 156. To cast a protection was to present or allege it as an excuse. Co. Litt. 128a. 130, 131; 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 406. This word is now used as a popular, rather than a technical, term, in the sense of to overcome, overthrow, or defeat in a civil action at law. Webster.

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