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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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330 1 K- 8, CAP. 3, PRISONERS.
STATUTES
Made at WESTMINSTER, in the First Year of the Reign of King
RICHARD III. and in the Year of our Lord 1483.
CAP. I.
All Acts made by or against Cestuy que use shall be good against him,
his Heirs, and Feoffees in Trust.
It was insisted in Matthews v. Ward's Lessee, 10 G. & J. 443, that this
Statute was in force here, but the Court of Appeals doubted whether it
applied to modern trusts, and said that it was questionable whether it is
in force in this State. It appears not to have any operation now, Sugd-
Gilbert on Uses, 67, n. I have therefore included it only by its title.
CAP. III.
Every Justice of Peace may let a Prisoner to Mainprise. No Officer
shall seise the Goods of a Prisoner until he be attainted,
Forasmuch as divers persons have ben daily arrested and
imprisoned for Suspection of Felony, sometime of Malice, and
251 *sometime of a light Suspection, and so kept in Prison
without Bail or Mainprise, to their great Vexation and Trouble:
(2) Be it ordained and established by Authority of this present
Parliament, That every Justice of the Peace in every Shire,
City, or Town, shall have Authority and Power, by his or their
Discretion, to let such Prisoners and Persons, so arrested, to
Bail or Mainprise, in like form as though the same Prisoners.
or Persons were indicted thereof of Record before the same Jus-
tices in their Sessions; (3) and that Justices of Peace have Au-
thority to inquire in their Sessions of all manner Escapes of
every person arrested and imprisoned for Felony. (4) And
that no Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, nor Escheator, Bailiff of Fran-
chise, nor any other person, take or seise the Goods of any per-
son arrested or imprisoned for Suspicion of Felony, before that
the same person, so arrested and imprisoned, be convicted or
attainted of such Felony according to the Law, or else the same
Goods otherwise lawfully forfeited, (5) upon pain to forfeit

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