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Stat. Westm. sec. - Sheriff's Tourn, etc. Act 1285

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1285 c. 13
Year1285
The Statute of WESTMINSTER the Second, made Anno 13 Edw I Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1285 The Order of the Indictments taken in the Sheriffs Turn.

(13 Edw. 1) C A P. XIII.

‘FOrasmuch as Sheriffs, feigning many times certain Persons to be indicted before them in their Turns of Felonies and other Trespasses, do take Men that are not capable nor lawfully indicted, and imprison them, and do exact Money from them, whereas they were not lawfully indicted by twelve Jurors,’ (2) 'it is ordained, That Sheriffs in their Turns, and in other Places where they have Power to enquire of Trespassors by the King's Precept, or by Office, shall cause their Inquests of such Malefactors to be taken by lawful Men, and by Twelve at the least, which shall put their Seals to such Inquisitions; (3) and those that shall be found culpable by such Inquests, they shall take and imprison, as they have used aforetimes to do. (4) And if they do imprison other than such...

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