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Justices of the Peace Quarter Sessions Act 1388

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 8 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1388 c. 10
Year1388
Statutes made at Cambridge, Anno 12 Rich II. and Anno Dom. 1388 How many Justices of Peace there shall be in every County, and how often they shall keep their Sessions,

(12 Ric. 2) C A P. X.

'ITEM it is ordained and agreed, That in every Commissionof the Justices of Peace, there shall be assigned but six Justices, with the Justices of Assises, (2) and that the said six Justices shall keep their Sessions in every Quarter of the Year at the least, and by three Days, if need be, upon pain to be punished according to the Discretion of the King's Council, at the Suit of every Man that will complain; (3) and they shall inquire diligently, amongst other Things touching their Offices, if the said Mayors, Bailiffs, Stewards, Constables, and Gaolers have duly done Execution of the said Ordinances of Servants and Labourers, Beggars and Vagabonds, and shall punish them that be punishable by the said Pain of an hundred Shillings, by the same Pain; and they that be found in Default, and which be not punishable by the same Pain, shall be punished by their Discretion.(4) And every of the said Justices shall take for their Wages four Shillings the Day for the Time of their said Sessions, and their Clerk two Shillings, of the Fines and Amerciaments rising and coming of the same Sessions, by the Hands of the Sheriffs. (5) And that the Lords of Franchises shall be contributory to the said Wages, after the Rate of their Part of Fines and Amerciaments aforesaid. (6) And that no Steward of any Lordbe assigned in any of the said commissions. (7) And that no Association shall be made to the Justices of the Peace after their first Commission. (8) And it is not the Intent of this Statute, that the Justices of the one Bench or of the other, nor the Serjeants of the Law, in case that they shall be named in the said Commissions, shall be bound by force of this Statute to hold the said Sessions four Times in the Year, as the other Commissioners, the...

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