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Public Officers Protection Act 1609

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1609 c. 5
Anno Regni Jacobi Regis Angli, Scoti, Franci, & Hiberni,viz . Angli, Franci & Hiberni septimo, & Scoti quadragesimo tertio An Act for Ease in pleading troublesome and contentious Suits prosecuted against Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Constables, and certain other his Majesty's Officers, for the lawful Execution of their Office.

(7 Ja. 1) C A P. V.

'FOR Ease in pleading against marry causeless and contentious Suits which have been, and daily are commenced and prosecuted against Justices of Peace, Mayors or Bailiffs of Cities and Towns Corporate, Headboroughs, Port-Reves, Constables, Tythingmen, Collectors of Subsidies and Fifteens, who for due Executionof their Office have been troubled and molested, and still are like to be troubled and molested, by evil-disposed contentious Persons, to their great Charge and Discouragement in doing of their Offices:' (2) Be it therefore enacted by our Sovereign Lord the King, and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That if any Action, Bill, Plaint or Suit, upon the Case, Trespass, Battery or false Imprisonment, shall be brought after forty Days next after the End of this Session of Parliament, in any of his Majesty's Courts atWestminster or elsewhere, against any Justice of Peace, Mayor or Bailiff of City or Town Corporate, Headborough, Port-Reve, Constable, Tythingman, Collector of Subsidy or Fifteens, for or concerning any Matter, Cause or Thing, by them or any of them done by Virtue or Reason of their or any of their Office or Offices, That it shall be lawful to and for every such Justice of Peace, Mayor Bailiff, Constable or other Officer or Officers before named, and all others which in their Aid or Assistance, or by their Commandment, shall do any Thing touching or concerning his or their Office or Offices, to plead the general Issue, that he or they are not guilty, (3) and to give such Special Matter in Evidence to the Jury which shall try the same, which Special Matter being pleaded had been a good and sufficient...

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