The question (13 marks)
A landowner wishes two villagers removed from her parish before they can marry and settle there. Her attorney has one of them brought before a friendly magistrate on a charge of cutting a hazel twig worth three-halfpence from the attorney's own field; the deposition is taken down by a constable, the magistrate calls the offence a kind of felonious larcenous thing, and both villagers are committed until a neighbouring squire arrives and takes them into his own custody. Identify, with reference to the prescribed texts, what has gone wrong at each stage of this proceeding, and say whether the two texts you rely on agree about where the fault lies. (13 marks)
MU Module I, problem question on Joseph Andrews and Pudd'nhead Wilson; pack ch. 01 s.3.3, s.6.3-6.4.
Plan your answer on paper before you look at the authorities — issue first, then the rule, then apply it to these facts.
It tests Unit 1 · Law and Literature: the Set Texts of English — Paper I.
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