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To pay to the defendant the sum of five shillings weekly maintenance.

In advance on failure of which the Court shall order the defendant to be released.

" Many stories were told of releases under this Act one of the favourites and one I have heard from old Canadians a score of times, is that after an order of this kind had been made, the plaintiff one morning unfortunately paid as part of the five shillings, a bad half- penny, whereupon, the defendant, being in the Cobourg gaol, applied to the Court, and the Court was forced to release him from custody.

There is much virtue in a " shall.

" The Court went so far as to decide that it was no excuse for the non-payment of the allowance that the defendant had become possessed of property subsequent to his obtaining his order for allowance : Williams v.