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Errors in Attainders Act 1586

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Year1586
Anno *vicesimo nono Regin Elizabeth .

* Vicesimo octavo, Lutw. 203,1117.

An Act concerning Errors in Records of Attainders of High Treason.

(29 Eliz. 1) C A P. II.

'FOrasmuch as through Corruption or negligent Keeping, the Records of Attainders of Treasonhappen many Times to be impaired, blemished or otherwise to be defective,' Beit ordained and enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That no Record of Attainder that now is of any Person or Persons of or for any High Treason, where the Party so attainted is or hath been executed for the same Treason, shall by the Heir or Heirs of any such Person, or by any other whatsoever claiming in, from, by or under any such Heir or Heirs, be in any wise hereafter reversed, undone, avoided or impeached by any Plea, or for any Error whatsoever.

S-II Where the Record is reversed, or thereupon a Writ of Error depending.

II Where the Record is reversed, or thereupon a Writ of Error depending.

II. Provided always nevertheless, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, shall in any wise extend to any Record of Attainder, of or for any Treason, upon which any Writ of Error is now depending, or which Record is already reversed, repealed or undone, by or for any Error, Matter, Plea, or Cause whatsoever; but that the same...

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