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Stat. Westm. sec. - Procurement of Suits Act 1285

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
The Statute of WESTMINSTER the Second, made Anno 13 Edw I Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1285 A Distress taken upon a Suit commenced by others.

(13 Edw. 1) CAP. XXXVI.

‘FOrasmuch as Lords of Courts, and other that keep Courts, and Stewards, intending to grieve their Inferiors, where they have no lawful mean so to do, procure other to move Matters against them, and to put in Surety and other Pledges, or to purchase Writs, and at the Suit of such Plaintiffscompel them to follow the County, Hundred, Wapentake, and other like Courts, until they have made Fine with them at their Will;’ '(2) it is ordained, that it shall not be so used hereafter. (3) And if any be attached upon such false Complaints, he shall replevy his Distress so taken, and shall cause the Matter to be brought afore the Justices, before whom if the Sheriff, Bailiff, or other Lord (after that the Party distrained hath framed his Plaint) will advow the Distress lawful by reason of such Complaints made unto them, and it be replied that such Plaints were moved maliciously against the Party by the Solicitation or Procurement of the Sheriff, or other Bailiffs, or Lords, the same Replicationshall be admitted; (4)and if they be convict hereupon, they shall make Fine to the King, and nevertheless restore treble Damages to the Parties grieved.'

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