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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 548   View pdf image (33K)
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548 18 ELIZ. CAP. 5, COMMON INFORMERS.
tive Process shall be awarded, to be recovered, in any Court of
Record, by Action of Debt or Information, in which no Essoin,
Protection, Injunction or Wager of Law shall be permitted or
allowed.
II. And be it further enacted, that no Jury shall be com-
pelled to appear in any of the Queen's Majesty's Courts of
Westminster, for the Trial of any Issue in any such Suit upon
any penal Law, for any Offence committed above thirty Miles
from the City of Westminster, except in case where the Attor-
ney General for the Time being, for some reasonable Cause in
that Behalf to be shewed, shall require the same to be tried at
the Bar in any of the Courts of the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs
or Successors at Westminster aforesaid; (2) which Request
shall be noted on the Backside of the Writ of Distringas there-
upon awarded, to the End the Sheriff or his Bailiff may and
shall signify the same to the Jury that are in such case im-
panelled.
III. And be it further enacted, That no such Informer or
Plaintiff, shall or may compound or agree with any Person or
Persons that shall offend, or shall be surmised to offend against
any penal Statute, for such Offence committed, or pretended
to be committed, but after Answer made in Court unto the
Information or Suit in that Behalf exhibited or prosecuted; (2)
nor after Answer, but by the Order or Consent of the Court in
•which the same Information or Suit shall be depending, upon
Pains and Penalties hereafter in this present Act set down and
declared: (3) And that if any such Informer or Plaintiff, as
aforesaid, shall willingly delay his Suit, or shall discontinue,
or be Nonsuit in the same, or shall have the Trial or Matter
past against him therein by Verdict or Judgment of Law,
That then in every such Case the same Informer or Plaintiff
shall yield, satisfy and pay unto the Party Defendant, his
Costs, Charges and Damages, to be assigned by the Court in
408 * which the same Suit shall be attempted: (4) For the Re-
covery and Execution whereof, every such Defendant shall im-
mediately upon the same Costs, Charges and Damages assigned,
have his Capias ad satisfac. fieri fecit, or Elegit, to be awarded
unto him out of the same Court in which the same shall be so
assigned, as is aforesaid, as is other Cases of Execution.

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