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Felony Act 1483

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 4 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1483 c. 3
Year1483
Anno primo RICHARDI III. Statutes made at Westminster in the First Year of the Reign of KingRichard III. and in the Year of our Lord 1483 Every Justice of Peace may let a Prisoner to Mainprise. No Officer shall seise the Goods of a Prisoner until he be attainted.

(1 Ric. 3) C A P. III.

'FOrasmuch as divers Persons have been daily arrested and imprisoned for Suspection of Felony, sometime of Malice, and sometime of a light Suspection, and so kept in Prison without Bail or Mainprise, to their great Vexation and Trouble:' (2) Be it ordained and established by Authority of this present Parliament, That every Justice of Peace in every Shire, City, or Town, shall have Authority and Power, by his or their Discretion, to let such Prisoners and Persons so arrested, to Bail or Mainprise, in like Form as though the same Prisoners or Persons were indicted thereof of Record before the same Justicesin their Sessions; (3) and that Justices of Peace have Authority to inquire in their Sessions of all Manner Escapes of every Person arrested and imprisoned for Felony. (4) And that no Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, nor Escheator, Bailiff of Franchise, nor any other Person, take or seise the Goods of any Personarrested or imprisoned for Suspicion of Felony, before that the same Person, so arrested or imprisoned, be convicted or attainted of such Felony according to the Law, or else the same Goodsotherwise lawfully forfeited; (5) upon Pain to forfeit the double Value of the Goods so taken, to him that is so hurt in...

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