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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 550   View pdf image (33K)
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550 18 ELIZ. CAP. 6, COMMON INFORMERS.
or granted by Virtue of any Statute, and not generally to any
Person that will sue, but that every such certain Person, Body
Politick or Corporate, which might sue or inform, as if this Act
were not made, may in such Case sue, inform and pursue, as he
or they might have done, if this Act were never had nor made.
VII. And provided also, That neither this Act, nor any Thing
therein contained, shall in any wise extend to any such Officers
of Record, as have in respect of their Offices heretofore lawfully
used to exhibit Informations, or sue upon penal Laws; (2) nor
to any Officers informing or pursuing for Matters only con-
cerning his or their Offices; (3) but that they and every of them
may inform and pursue in that Behalf, as they might have done
before the Making of this Act; any Thing in this Act contained
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
VIII. This Act to take Force and Effect from the Feast of
Easter next coming, and from thenceforth to endure unto the
End of the first Session of the next Parliament. Made perpetual
by 27 E] is. C.I. 31 Eliz. c. 5.
I. The Duty of an Informer in prosecuting a Suit upon a penal Statute,
and his Punishment if he abuse it, Cro. El. 77, 434. 3 Inst. 192. A Note
of the Day, Month, and Year of the Exhibiting of an Information. Indorse-
ment of the Process awarded upon an Information.
II. Where the Trial of an Issue shall be in a Suit upon a penal Statute.
Stiles, 381.
III. No informer shall compound with the Defendant, but by Consent
of the Court. 2 Bulstr. 137. Hob. 250. 2 Roll. 103, 136. The Penalty of
an Informer delaying or discontinuing his Suit, or being Nonsuit, &c. 2
Leon. 116. Savill, 50.
IV. The Punishment of an Informer misbehaving himself in the Prose-
cution of his suit, &c. What Justices may hear and determine these
Offences.
V. Pursuing upon the Statute against Maintenance, Champerty, &c,
VI. Penalties given to Persons certain, and not generally.
VII. Officers using to exhibit Informations.
"There is reason to believe that some parts of this statute were con-
sidered applicable to the circumstances of the people of the province,
although the whole might not have been so. By recurring to the acts of
assembly, it will appear that as early as 1704, fines were imposed, one half
to the government, and the other half to him or them that should inform
or sue for the same, to be recovered by action of debt, bill plaint or infor-
mation, most of which acts are still in force.

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