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Tested, to bear the teste. A writ is issued in the name of the sovereign, and the Lord Chancellor is supposed to witness it. All writs are, by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. II., r. 8, tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor. They were before the Judicature Acts tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor if issuing from the Court of Chancery, or of the Lord Chief Justice if issuing from the Queen's Bench, etc.