“They were.”
“On whose person, after having been stolen, were they found?”
“On the person of the prisoner at the bar.”
“You swear that?”
“I do; because I saw him take them out of his pocket in my own house after he had been made prisoner and detected.”
“Then they are your property?”
“Certainly—I consider them my property; who else's property could they be.”
“Pray, is not your daughter a minor?”
“She is.”
“And a ward in the Court of Chancery?”