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Fines of Land Act 1588

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1588 c. 2
Anno tricesimo primo Regin E l i z a b e t h . An Act for abridging of Proclamations upon Fines to be levied at the Common Law.

(31 Eliz. 1) C A P. II.

'WHEREAS the Statute made in the fourth Year of KingHenry the Seventh hath ordered, Thatevery Fine to be levied with Proclamations in the King's Court, afore his Justices of the Common Pleas, should be proclaimed in the same Court that Term in which it is engrossed, and in three Terms then next following, at four several Days in every Term; by reason whereof they ought to be proclaimed four Times in every of the four several Terms: And that during the Time of proclaiming of such Fines, all Pleas should cease: (2) which to do according to the said Statute (considering the Multitudes of Fines now usually levied) would require sixteen Days in every Term; and by reason of the many Causes and Suits in that Court, is a far greater Troublethan heretofore hath been, so as scarcely one Day in every Term can be spared for the proclaiming of Fines:' (3) Beit enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That all Fines with Proclamations, from and after the Feast ofEaster next ensuing, to be levied in the said Court, shall be proclaimed only four Times; that is to say, once in the Term wherein it is engrossed, and once in every of the three Termsholden next after the same ingrossing: (4) And that every Fine proclaimed as aforesaid, shall be of as...

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