CHAP. 24. The remedy, if an officer of the
king do disscise any.
CHAP. 25. None shall commit champerty to
have part of the thing in question.
CHAP. 26. None of the king's officers shall
commit extortion.
CHAP. 27. Clerks of officers shall not commit
extortion.
CHAP. 28. Clerks shall not commit maintenance.
CHAP. 29. The penalty of a serjeant, or pleader
committing deceit.
CHAP. 30. Extortion by jnstice's officers.
CHAP. 31. The penalty of taking excessive
toll in a city, &c.--Murage granted to cities.
CHAP. 32. The penalty of purveyors not paying
for what they take.--The king's carriages.
CHAP. 33. No maintainers of quarrels shall
be suffered.
CHAP. 34. None shall report slanderous news,
whereby discord may arise.
CHAP. 35. The penalty for arresting within
a
liberty, those that hold not thereof.
CHAP. 36. Aid to make the son knight, or to
marry the daughter.
CHAP. 37. The penalty of a man convicted of
disseisin, with robbery in the king's time.
CHAP. 38. An attaint shall be granted in plea
of land touching freehold. |
CHAP. 24. See the note on 9 Hen. 3, Ch. 12.
CHAP. 25. I have not met with any instance
of a prosecution under this statute. It appears in
the provincial records in 1722, that a prosecution
was directed against two attornies for maintenance,
which was not proceeded on.
CHAP. 26. It does not appear that this statute
was in force in the province, but there were several
acts of assembly to prevent officers from taking
greater fees than were allowed by law.
CHAP. 27. Same.
CHAP. 28. See the note on Ch. 25.
CHAP. 30. See the note on Ch. 26.
CHAP. 33. See the note on Ch. 25.
CHAP. 34. There was an act of Assembly in
1692, (Ch. 5,) against divulgers of false news.
See also the note on 2 Rich. 2, Stat. 1, Ch. 5.
CHAP. 37. See the note on 9 Hen. 3, Ch. 12.
CHAP. 38. See 3 Bl. Com. 402, as to the disuse
of this writ in England; of course it was not
used in the province, although I find it alluded
to in a message from the house of delegates to
the governor in 1698, praying that juries might
have liberty, freely and clearly, to give their verdict
without any apprehension, and be saved
harmless for the same, unless they might justly
by law be attained. |
