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In a question about aliment craved by an indigent prisoner from his creditor, it was objected, That he was already sufficiently alimented, by being on the Exchequer charity-roll for L. 15 Sterling yearly. Answered, This is jus tertii as to the creditor, who can plead no jus quæsitum upon that score; and were the prisoner craving to be set at liberty upon a cessio bonorum, it would not include the King's bounty. The defence was repelled. But upon an after-application, 20th November 1734, this interlocutor was altered, and the defence sustained
