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Artic. sup. Cart. - Inquests within Verge, etc. Act 1300

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Articuli super Chartas,made at Westminster, Anno 28 Edw. 1 Stat. 3. and Anno Dom. 1300 Of what Things only the Marshal of the King's House shall hold Plea. Which Coroners shall enquire of the Death of a Man slain within the Verge.

(28 Edw. 1) C A P. III.

'COncerning the Authority of Stewards and Marshals, and of such Pleas as they may hold, and in what Manner, it is ordained, That from henceforth they shall not hold Plea of Freehold, neither of Debt, nor of Covenant, nor of any Contract made between the King's People, (2) but only of Trespass done within the House, and of other Trespasses *done within the Verge, and of Contracts and Covenants that one of the King'sHouse shall have made with another of the same House, and in the same House, and none other where. (3) And they shall plead no Plea of Trespass, other than that which shall be attached by them before the King depart from the Verge where the Trespass shall be committed; (4) and shall plead them speedily from Day to Day, so that they may be pleaded and desermined before that the King depart out of the Limits of the same Verge where the Trespass was done. (5) And if it so be that they cannot be determined within the Limits of the same Verge, then shall the same Pleas cease before the Steward, and the Plaintiffs shall have Recourse to the Common Law. (6) And from henceforth the Steward shall not take Cognisance of Debts nor of other Things, but of People of the same House, nor shall hold none other Plea by Obligation made at the Distress of the Steward and of the Marshals. (7)And if the Steward or Marshals do any Thing contrary to this Ordinance, it shall be holden as void. (8) And forasmuch as heretofore many Felonies committed within the Verge have been unpunished, because the Coroners...

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