Excerpt from Cases in the Supreme Court, Vol. 3: Cape of Good Hope, During the Year 1873, With Table of Cases and Alphabetical Index As the action was brought for the payment of the plain tiff's maternal inheritance, and the special plea is to a claim for his legitimate portion, which was not in question, the plea does not in fact meet the case, and the defence rests entirely upon the general issue. Such being the state of the pleadings, I shall now state the history of the case, as it appears from the evidence, oral and documentary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.