Note 173 — Book VI.
John Beames translation
Among the Constitutions of the Ancient kings, the Mirror informs us, “it was ordained, that after a Plaint of wrong be sued, that no other have Jurisdiction in the same place, before the first Plaint be determined: and from thence came this clause in a Writ of Right, Et nisi feceris vicecomes faciat.” (Mirror c. 1. s. 3.)