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18 ELIZ. CAP. 6, COMMON INFORMERS. 549 IV. And be it also enacted, That if any Person or Persons (except the Clerks of the Court only, for making out of Pro- cess otherwise than is above-appointed) shall offend in suing out of Process, making of Composition, or other Misdemeanor, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Statute, or shall by Colour or Pretence of Process, or without Process, upon Colour or Pretence of any Matter of Offence against any penal Law, make any Composition, or take any Money, Reward or Promise of Reward, for himself, or to the Use of any other, without Order or Consent of some of her Majesty's Courts at Westminster; that then he or they so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall stand on the Pillory in some Market- Town next adjoining where the same Offence shall be committed in the open Market-time, and therein remain by the Space of two Hours; (2) and shall from and after such Conviction for ever be disabled to pursue, or be Plaintiff or Informer in any Suit or Information upon any Statute popular or penal; (3) and shall also for every such Offence forfeit and lose tea Pounds of lawful English Money, the one Half thereof to the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, and the other Half to the Party grieved thereby, to be recovered in any Court of Record, by Action of Debt or Information; in which no Essoin, Protec- tion, Injunction or Wager of Law, shall be permitted or allowed: (4) And that Justices of Oyer and Terminer, Justices of Assise in their Circuits, and Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Ses- sions, shall have full Power and Authority to hear and deter- mine all Offences to be committed or done contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this present Act. V. Provided always, and nevertheless be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons grieved by means of any manner of Maintenance, Champerty, buying of Titles or Imbracery, to pursue upon any the Statutes provided and set forth against Maintenance, Champerty, Buy- ing of Titles or Imbracery, as he or they might have done *before the Making of this Act; any Thing in this Act con- 409 tained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. VI. Provided also, That this Act shall not extend to any Suit already depending; (2) nor shall restrain any certain Per- son, Body Politick or Corporate, to whom or to whose Use any Forfeiture, Penalty or Suit is or shall be specially limited |
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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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