Outlawry Act 1331

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1331 c. 13
Year1331
Statutes made at Westminster, crastino Michaelis , Anno 5 Edw. 3 and Anno Dom. 1331 a.

a Statutum de Roberdesmen.

What is requisite where any Person will avoid an Outlawry by Imprisonment.

(5 Edw. 3) C A P. XIII

‘IT E M, Because divers People being duly outlawed, have avoided the Outlawries pronounced against them, by reason of Imprisonments untruly testified by Sheriffs and others which have no Record;’ ' (2)it is enacted, That if any from henceforth will defeat any Outlawry pronounced upon him by such Testimony, that he shall yield himself to the Prison, (3) and then the Justices of the King's Bench shall cause the Party at whole Suit the Outlawry was pronounced, to be warned to be before them at a certain Day; (4) at which Day, if the Party will verify that the Testimony is untrue, his Averment shall be...

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