CHAP. 3. No man shall come before the justices,
or go or ride armed.
CHAP. 4. A confirmation of the statute of
Lincoln, concerning the sufficiency of sheriffs.
CHAP. 5. The manner how writs shall be delivered
to the sheriff to be executed.
CHAP. 6. Justices shall have authority to
punish
breakers of the peace.
CHAP. 7. Commissions shall be granted to
certain persons, to hear and determine offences
before committed, and to punish the offenders.
CHAP. 9. All staples shall cease, and all merchants
may come in and go out with their merchandize.
CHAP. 10. The king's pardon of fines forfeited.
CHAP. 11. The common bench shall not be
removed without warning by adjournment.
CHAP. 12. Hundred and wapentakes shall be
annexed to counties, and not let to ferm.
CHAP. 13. Process of trespass committed in
the time of king Edward the second.
CHAP. 14. The measure and assize of cloths
of ray and colour.
CHAP. 15. No person shall keep a fair longer
than he ought to.
CHAP. 16. Nisi prius may be granted as
well
at the tenants suit as the demandants.
CHAP. 17. A writ of deceit shall be maintainable
in case of garnishment in plea of land. |
England. But the charter (Sect. 7) gave to the
proprietor power to remit, release, pardon and
abolish all offences and crimes against the laws,
whether before or after judgment passed; and the
33d section of the constitution authorized the governor
to grant reprieves and pardons for any
crime, except in such cases where the law shall
otherwise direct. There are also some other acts
respecting conditional pardons.
CHAP. 3. This statute is mentioned in 2 Bac.
Abt. under the title of forcible entry; but, although
the other statutes on that subject extended
to the province, this does not appear necessarily
connected with them, or applicable to the circumstances
of the people.
CHAP. 6. See 13 Edw. 1, Stat. 2, Ch. 6.
CHAP. 9. Notwithstanding what is stated in
the note on 9 Hen. 3, Ch. 39, it does not appear
that the provisions in this statute were applicable
to the province.
CHAP. 13. Expired. |
