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Fines and Forfeitures Act 1405

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1405 c. 3
Year1405
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 7 Hen . IV. and Anno Dom. 1405 The Rolls of Estreats shall be made certain.

(7 Hen. 4) C A P. III.

‘ITEM, Whereas divers People of the Realm do lose Issues, Fines, and Amerciaments in the Court of our Lord the King, at the Suit of any Party, and also Issues and Amerciaments in Inquests and Juries, wherein they be impanelled betwixt Party and Party in the said Court; whereupon the Bailists of Sheriffs and their Receivers, and the Bailists of Franchises and their Receivers, which gather the green Wax, do levy the same Issues, Fines, and Amerciaments by Estreats sent to them, and delivered out of the Place where they were forfeit, by obscure and ambiguous Words, containing the Sum so lost, not making mention by express Words of the Cause of the Loss, nor the Day of the Term, nor betwixt what Parties, nor the Nature of the Writ in which the same Issues, Fines, and Amerciaments were lost, (2) so that the said Officers do levy the Sum two or three Times, and sometime the double Sum contained in their Estreats, to the great Grief and Impoverishing of all the People;’ '(3) it is ordained and established, that the Justices and Judges, before whom such Issues or Amerciaments be or shall be forfeit, in time to come shall charge the Clerks of the...

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