Cowper Law (Vol. iv., p. 101.).
—For the satisfaction of your correspondent C. DE D., I transcribe from Jamieson's Dictionary the following:
"COWPER JUSTICE, trying a man after execution: the same with Jeddart, or Jedburgh justice[17] [See JEDDART JUSTICE.]
'Yet let the present swearing trustees
Know they give conscience Cowper Justice,
And by subscribing it in gross,
Renounces every solid gloss.—
And if my judgement be not scant,
Some lybel will be relevant,
And all the process firm and fast,