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Letter to Editor
December 24, 1762
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A letter challenges a 'Remarker' on an advertisement for selling half a pew from Dorothy Jackson's estate, questioning if 6 PM is an inconvenient time, the propriety of questioning a court-settled title, persisting in absurd pretenses, and liability for slandering the title to reduce sale value, comparing it to damaging another's property.
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Mr. PRINTER.
PLEASE to ask your Remarker
on the Advertisement Notifying an intended Sale of
the half Part of a Pew, &c. as the Estate of one Dorothy
Jackson, deceased, whether Six o'Clock in the
Evening is no particular Time of the Day? Whether
when a pretended Title or Right to any Estate has
been fairly tried and settled in a Court of Law, it
does not become every one to be silent, as to the
Validity of such Title, till the Judgment by which it
is settled is reversed? Whether it is consistent with
common Sense and Modesty, when a groundless Pre-
tence of any Kind, has been treated with so much
Attention and Regard as to receive a serious Answer
and Reflection, to persist in the same Pretence, and
as gravely as impertinently persevere in the same Ab-
surdity, as if no Notice had ever been taken of, or any
Answer ever given to it? Whether when any Estate
is advertised to be Sold, he who slanders the Title and
raises futile and groundless Scruples, and thereby
eventually depreciates the Value, and diminishes the
Price of the Sale, is not as evidently subject to an
Action for Damages, as he who should seriously cut
down Trees growing on Land not his own?
PLEASE to ask your Remarker
on the Advertisement Notifying an intended Sale of
the half Part of a Pew, &c. as the Estate of one Dorothy
Jackson, deceased, whether Six o'Clock in the
Evening is no particular Time of the Day? Whether
when a pretended Title or Right to any Estate has
been fairly tried and settled in a Court of Law, it
does not become every one to be silent, as to the
Validity of such Title, till the Judgment by which it
is settled is reversed? Whether it is consistent with
common Sense and Modesty, when a groundless Pre-
tence of any Kind, has been treated with so much
Attention and Regard as to receive a serious Answer
and Reflection, to persist in the same Pretence, and
as gravely as impertinently persevere in the same Ab-
surdity, as if no Notice had ever been taken of, or any
Answer ever given to it? Whether when any Estate
is advertised to be Sold, he who slanders the Title and
raises futile and groundless Scruples, and thereby
eventually depreciates the Value, and diminishes the
Price of the Sale, is not as evidently subject to an
Action for Damages, as he who should seriously cut
down Trees growing on Land not his own?
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Provocative
What themes does it cover?
Commerce Trade
Crime Punishment
What keywords are associated?
Pew Sale
Property Title
Court Judgment
Slander Damages
Dorothy Jackson
Estate Advertisement
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Printer
Letter to Editor Details
Recipient
Mr. Printer
Main Argument
challenges the 'remarker' for questioning the sale time, court-validated title, persisting in groundless claims, and slandering the property title to depreciate its value, asserting such actions warrant damages like trespass.
Notable Details
Rhetorical Questions Structure
Analogy To Cutting Down Trees On Another's Land
Reference To Court Judgment On Title