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Franchises Act 1429

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 8 Hen . VI. and Anno.Dom. 1429. The Penalty if in any Action the Defendant make Default to put the Lords, Mayors,&c.from their Jurisdiction.

(8 Hen. 6) C A P. XXVI.

'ITEM, It is ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Writs of Assises, and of Actions personal, sued or to be sued before the King in his Bench, Justices of the Common Place, or any other the King's Justices for the time being, of any Lands or Tenements, or of any thing being and rising within any Seignory, Franchise, or antient Demesne, whereof the Cognizance or Jurisdiction ought to pertain to any Lords, Mayors, Bailiffs, Citizens, Burgesses, or Commonalty of such Seignories, Franchises, or antient Demesne, that then if any Defendant in any such Assise, or other Actions personal, make any Default, to put out, exclude, and expel the aforesaid Lords, Mayors, Bailiffs, Citizens, Burgesses, or Commonalty of their Cognizance or Franchise, that the Justices, at the Request of the said Lords, Mayors, Bailiffs, Citizens, Burgesses, or Commonalty, shall make Inquiry by the Assise where such Exception is alledged in Assises, and in Actions personals by Inquests to be taken before the Justices, if such Defaults shall be made as afore is said, or not: (2) In which Assise and Inquests so to be taken, as well the Plaintiffs, as the Lords, Mayors, Bailiffs, Citizens, Burgesses, and Commonalty may have their Challenge. (3)And if it be found by such Assises or Inquests so to be taken, that such Defaults shall be made by Collusion, to put out and exclude the said Lords...

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