Bridges Act 1530
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1530 c. 5 |
| Year | 1530 |
(22 Hen. 8) C A P. V.
BE it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That the Justices of Peacein every Shire of this Realm, Franchise, City, or Borough, or Four of them at the least, whereof One to be of theQuorum , shall have Power and Authority to inquire, hear, and determine in the King's General Sessions of Peace, of all Manner of Annoyances of Bridges broken in the High-ways, to the Damage of the King's liege People, and to make such Process and Pains upon every Presentment afore them for the Reformationof the same, against such as owen to be charged for the making or amending of such Bridges, as the King's Justices of his Bench use commonly to do, or as it shall seem by their Discretions to be necessary and convenient for the speedy Amendment of such Bridges.
'II. And where in many Part of this Realm it cannot be known and proved what Hundred, Riding, Wapentake, City, Borough, Town, or Parish, nor what Person certain, or Body Politick, ought of Right to make such Bridges decayed, by Reason whereof such decayed Bridges, for lack of Knowledge of such as own to make them, for the most Part lie long without any Amendment, to the great Annoyanceof the King's Subjects.'
III. For the Remedy thereof, be it enacted by Authority aforesaid, That in every such Case the said Bridges, if they be without City, or Town Corporate, shall be made by the Inhabitants of the Shire or Riding within the which the said Bridge decayed shall happen to be; (2) and if it be within any City or Town Corporate, then by the Inhabitants of every such City or Town Corporate wherein such Bridges shall happen to be; (3) and if Part of any such Bridges so decayed happen to be in one Shire, Riding, City, or Town Corporate, and the other Part thereof in another Shire, Riding, City, or Town Corporate, or if Part be within the Limits of any City, or Town Corporate, and Part without, or Part within one Riding, and Part within another; that then in every such Case, the Inhabitants of the Shires, Ridings, Cities or Towns Corporate shall be charged, and chargeable to amend, make, and repair such Part and Portion of such Bridges so decayed as shall lie and be within the Limits of the Shire, Riding, City, or Town Corporate, wherein they be inhabited at the Time of the same Decays.
IV. And be it further enacted, That in every such Case where it cannot be known and proved, what Persons, Lands, Tenements, and Bodies Politick owen to make and repair such Bridges, that for speedy Reformation and amending of such Bridges, the Justices of Peace within the Shires or Ridings wherein such decayed Bridges been out of Cities and Towns Corporate, and if it be within Cities or Towns Corporate, then the Justices of Peace within every such City or Town Corporate, or Four of the said Justices at the least, whereof One to be of theQuorum , shall have Power and Authority within the Limits of their several Commissions and Authorities, to call before them the Constables of every Town and Parish, being within the Shire, Riding, City, or Town Corporate, as well within Liberty as without, wherein such Bridges...
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