The  option  of  issuing  a  summons  of  this  Idnd  is  already  given  in  all
such  cases  where  more  than  £20  is  claimed,§  or  in  any  case  where  the
amount  claimed  is  for  goods  sold  to  the  defendant,  to  be  dealt  with
in  the  way  of  his  occupation.||     There  seems,  however,  no  valid

*  It  is  of  course  assumed  that  some  far  more  simple  maohinory  than  that  of
eerttortari  would  be  adopted.
-  f  Obsenrationa  of  Mr.  J.  Pitt  Taylor  at  the  end  of  the  Royal  OommiBsioDera'
Beport.
%  The  judge  should,  of  course,  have  a  wide  discretion  to  allow  of  frtsh  grounds
of  defence  being  set  up  wherever  the  justice  of  the  oaae  iMuir^d  itt

§  19  &  20  Vict.  c.  108,  s.  28,

II  80  &  81  Vict.  c.  142,  8.  2.
