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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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6 GEO. 2, CAP. 14, PROCESS. 967
the Court of Exchequer la Scotland, shall be in the English Language,
so far as the same Act doth or may relate to the Courts of Justice holden
within the said Principality, and for explaining and amending the
said Act.
Whereas in and by an Act made in the Fifth Year of his
present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to explain, amend,
and render more effectual an Act made in the Twelfth Year
of the Reign of his lute Majesty King GEORGE the First, inti-
tuled, An Act to prevent vexatious Arrests, it is (inter alia)
enacted, That where the Cause of Action should not amount to
the Sum of Tea Pounds or upwards, in any superior Court, the
Writ, Process, Declaration and all other Proceedings should
be in the English Tongue, and Written in Words at length,
in a common legible Hand and Character, and the Defendant
or Defendants in such Cases (a Copy of such Process in Eng-
lish having been served, as by the said Act is directed) shall
appear at the Return thereof, or within Eight Days after such
Return: And whereas the Courts of Great Sessions in the
Principality of Wales, and the Court of Assize in the County
Palatine of Chester, are held only for and during the space of
Six Days, Therefore for the more effectual and speedy Deter-
mination of all Actions personal, to be commenced in the said
Courts of Great Sessions, and the said Court of Assize respect-
ively, where the Debt or Damages expressed in the said Pro-
cess, or declared for, do not amount to the Sum of Ten pounds,
be it enacted therefore by the King's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and by Authority of the same, That in all such per-
sonal* Actions where the Debt or Damages, as aforesaid, 719
shall not amount to the sum of Ten pounds, to be commenced
in the said Courts of Great Sessions and Assize, and where
the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, in such Action or Actions, shall
sue out an original Writ or Process, and serve the Defendant
or Defendants with a true Copy thereof, by a literate Person,
at least Eight Days before the Commencement of the said
Courts of Great Sessions and Assize respectively, and shall
cause on every Copy of such Process to be written the Notice
in the said Act specified and directed, the Defendant or De-
fendants in such Cases shall appear at the Return of such

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