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Sheriff's Tourns Act 1483

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 4 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1483 c. 4
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 Of what Credit and Estate those Jurors must be which shall be impanelled in the Sheriff's Turn.

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

'FOrasmuch as divers great Inconveniencies and Perjuries do daily happen in divers Shires ofEngland by untrue Verdicts given in Inquisitions and Inquiries before Sheriffs in their Turns, by Persons of no Substance nor Behaviour, nor dreading God nor the World's Shame, by reason whereof divers and many of the King's Lieges of divers Parts of England , by exciting and procuring of their evil Willers, be wrongfully indicted, and other that ought of right to be indicted by such Excitation and procuring, oftentimes be spared, contrary to common Right and to good Conscience.' (2) In eschewing whereof, be it ordained by the King our Sovereign Lord, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That no Bailiff nor other Officer from henceforth return or impanel any such Person in any Shire of England , to be taken or put in or upon any such Inquiry in any of the said Turns, but such as be of good Name and Fame, and having Lands and Tenements of Freehold within the same Shires to the yearly Value of xx. s. at the least, or else Lands and Tenements holden by Custom of Manor, commonly called Copyhold , within the said Shires, to the yearly Value of xxvi. s. viii. d. over all Charges at the least: (3) And if any Bailiff or other Officer within the said Counties hereafter return or impanel any Person contrary hereunto, he to lose for every Person that he so impanelleth and returneth, not being of the Sufficiency as is aforesaid, as often as he so offendeth, xl. s.

S-II

II. And the said Sheriff otherxl. s. the one Half thereof to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Half thereof to such as will sue in that Behalf: And that every Man that will sue for the same to have their several...

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