Immediately after the ceremony they partook of a sumptuous collation, and the happy pair setoff in a chariot and four, attended by six outriders, and two coaches and four.
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
39 Very often too a plaintiff obtains judgement for less than he was owed through the defendant's pleading a setoff: for, as has already been observed, the judge, acting on equitable principles, would in such a case take into account the cross demand in the same transaction of the defendant, and condemn him only in the residue.
"The Institutes of Justinian"
Caesar Flavius Justinian