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Reversal of judgment. A judgment might have been reversed without a writ of error, for matters foreign to or dehors the record, i.e., not apparent upon the face of it, so that they could not be assigned for error in the superior courts, or by writ of error, which lay from all inferior jurisdictions to the King's Bench and thence to the Exchequer Chamber and the House on Lords. It was brought for mistakes as to matters of substance, appearing in the judgment or other parts of the record. See Steph. Com., 7th Edn., iii. 579; iv. 463. See now R.S.C. Ord. LVIII.