Perjury Act 1495
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(11 Hen. 7) C A P. XXI.
'WHEREAS Perjury is much and customarily used within the City ofLondon , among such Persons as passen and been impanelled upon Issues joined between Party and Party in the Courts of the same City, to the great Displeasure of Almighty God, and also to the Disheritance and manifold Wrongs of the King's Subjects, forasmuch as there is impanelled in the same Inquests Persons of little Substance, Discretion, and Reputation; (2) and also no Attaint, ne other sufficient Punishment, is for such perjured Persons before this Time purveyed and ordained within the same City;' (3) Therefore it may please the King's Highness, by the Advice and Assent of the Lord's Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliamentassembled, and by Authority of the same, to stablish, ordain, and enact, That no Person ne Persons hereafter be impanelled, summoned, or sworn in any Jury or Inquest in Courts within the same City, except he be of Lands, Tenements, or Goods and Chattles, to the Value ofxl. Marks; (4) and that no Person or Persons hereafter be impanelled, summoned, nor sworn in any Jury or Inquest in any Court within the said City, for Lands or Tenements, or Action personal, wherein the Debt or Damage amounteth to the Sum of xl. Marks, or above, except he be in Lands, Tenements, Goods, or Chattles, to the Value of C. Marks; (5) and the same Matter and Cause alledged by any of the said Parties by way of Challenge, and so founden, shall be admitted and taken in every of the same Courts as a principal Challenge. (6)And that every such Person hereafter to be impanelled or summoned to appear, in any Jury or Inquest before any of the said Judges of the same City, making Default, at the first Summons lose and forfeit in Issuesxii. d. and at the second Default ij. s. and so at every such Default after that, the Issues and Penalties to be double: (7) And all such Issues lost in the Mayor's Court shall be forfeited, levied, and perceived to the Use and Behoof of the Mayor and Commonalty of the said City; and all such Issueslost in the Sheriffs Court or Courts shall be forfeited, levied, and perceived to the Use of the Sheriffs of the same City for the time being, towards their Fee-ferm. (8) And also be it enacted by like Authority, That the Party grieved by any untrue or false Verdict...
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