Poor Prisoners (Scotland) Act 1825
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1825 c. 62 |
| Year | 1825 |
(6 Geo. 4) C A P. LXII.
[22d June 1825]
'WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament ofScotland , passed in the First Parliament of King William the Third, intituled , it was enacted, that where any Person is made or shall be made Prisoner for a Civil Debt or Cause, and shall be found or become so poor as that he cannot aliment himself, then and in that Case it shall be leisom to the Magistrates of the Burgh where the Prison is to which the said Prisoner is committed, upon the Complaint of the said Prisoner, and his making Faith in their Presence that he hath not wherewith to aliment himself, to intimate the same to the Creditors, One or more, at whose Instance the said Person was committed or is detained, and to require him and them either to provide and give Security for an Aliment to him, not under Three ShillingsScots or Three Pence Sterling per Diem , or else to consent to his Liberation: And Whereas much Distress is often suffered by such poor Prisoners, from the Want of Support between the Time that they are committed to Prison and the Time when an Aliment is awarded and paid to them pursuant to the said recited Act;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authorityof the same, That from and after the Expiration of One Month after the passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Gaoler or Keeper of any Prison to which a Prisoner shall be brought to be confined for a Civil Debt, to receive such Prisoner into his Custody or confine him in such Prison, unless the Sum of Ten Shillings Sterling shall be deposited in his Hands by the Creditor, Incarcerater or other Person for Behoof of such Creditor, as a Means of and Security for the Aliment of such Prisoner in the Manner herein directed.
II Aliment paid out of Sum deposited till exhausted.
II. And be it enacted, in the Event of an Aliment being awarded under the said recited Act, That the Gaoler or other Person in whose Hands the said Sum of Ten Shillings shall have been deposited, shall pay out of the same the Aliment of the said Prisoner, at the same Rate at which Aliment shall subsequently be allowed to such Prisoner, from the Time that he...
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