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Magna Carta - Crown Debt Act 1297

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 4 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1297 c. 18
Year1297
MAGNA CHARTA.The GREAT CHARTER,Made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Third, and confirmed by King Edward the First in the Five and twentieth Year of His Reign The King's Debtor dying, the King shall be first paid.

(25 Edw. 1) C A P. XVIII.

'IF any that holdeth of us Lay-see do die, and our Sheriff or Bailiff do shew our Letters Patents of our summon for Debt, which the dead man did owe to us; it shall be lawful to our Sheriff or Bailiff to attach and inroll all the goods and chattles of the dead, being found in the said ✗see, to the Valueof the same Debt, by the sight †and testimony of lawful men, so that nothing thereof shall be taken away, until we be clearly paid off the debt; (2) and the residue shall remain to the Executors to perform the testament of the dead; (3) and if nothing be owing

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