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§. 1.
Transporting. |
Sheep. Sheriffs.
CHAP. LXXXIX.
Sheep.
' IF any shall bring, deliver, send, receive, or
take, or procure, &c. into
' any Ship or Bottom, any Rams, Sheep, or Lambs, or any manner
' of Sheep being alive, to be carried and conveyed out of England, Wales,
' or Ireland, or any the Queens Dominions; the Party, his Aiders
Abettors,
' Procurers, and Comforters, shall forfeit all his Goods, a moiety
' to the Queen, the other moiety to the Prosecutor in any Court of Record,
' and shall suffer imprisonment for a year without Bail; and at the
' years end, in some Market Town, in the fulness of the Market, on the
' Market day, have his left hand to be cut off, and nailed up in the opennest
' place of such Market; and the second offence is Felony |
Chap. 89, 90.
8 El. 3. |
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' Justices of Peace (inter alios) have power
to inquire of, hear and determine
' offences against this Act. 8 El. 3. |
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§. 3.
Keeping. |
' No Farmer shall keep above Two thousand Sheep
at one time upon
' pain to forfeit for every Sheep above, 3 s. 4 d. |
25 H. 8. 13. |
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' It shall not extend to Lambs under a year old,
nor to Sheep coming by
' Executorship or marriage; so as within a year. he reduce them to Two
' thousand, nor to sheep bequeathed by Will, nor to Sheep kept in a
' Mans own Demesns. |
Ibid. |
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' The prosecution shall be within a year, and Justices
of Peace, as
' well by Oaths of Twelve men, as by Information of the Kings Subjects.
' And such Process shall be made, as in Trespass, and the Fines shall not
be
' less than the Forfeitures. 25 H. 8. 13. |
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' Sixscore Sheep shall be accompted a Hundred.
Ibid.
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§. 1.
One Justice
to Oversee
the County
Courts. |
CHAP. XC. V. 51.
Sheriffs.
THE Custos Rotulor, or the eldest Justice
of the Quorum (in his absence)
ought at the General Sessions after Michaelmas, to appoint two Justices
of the Peace (the one being of the Quorum) to have the over-sight
and controlment of the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, and other their Officers
and Deputies, and the Inspection and Examination of their Books and Amerciaments,
and for making of Estreats, &c. in their County Courts. |
11 H. 7. 15
P. 16, 18,
20. |
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Also either of those two Justices of Peace, or any
other Justice of
Peace; (' as it seemeth by the words of the Statute') upon complaint of
the party grieved, may examine the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, Shire-Clerk,
and Plaintiffs, concerning the taking, or entring of Plaints in their
said
County Courts, and Books against the Statute, viz. |
La. 23,
291. P. 16. |
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1. If any Plaints shall be entred in their
Books, in any Mans name,
unless the Party Plaintiff be either present in Court in Person, or by
a
sufficient Attorney or Deputy, that is known to be of good name and behavior. |
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2. If that the Plaintiff find not pledges
to pursue his said Plaint (sc.
such Persons as are known in that County.) |
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3. If the Plaintiff shall enter more than
one Plaint, for one Trespass,
Contract, or Cause. |
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4. If the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, &c.
shall enter or cause to be entred
any more Plaints than the Plaintiff supposeth he hath cause of Action
for
against the Defendant. |
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