Proclamation Before Exigent, etc. Act 1514
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1514 c. 4 |
| Year | 1514 |
(6 Hen. 8) C A P. IV.
'WHere at a Parliament holden atWestminster the Fourth Day of February , in the Third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth that now is, and from thence (for divers urgent Caules) unto the Fourth Day of November , the Fourth Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord, prorogued, One good and reasonable Act was made and ordained, touching Writs of Proclamation to be made upon Exigents sued against any Persons in foreign or other Shire, than where such Defendant be called of; only to endure from thence unto the next Parliament: (2) which Act is now determined, the Effect and true Intent of which said Act is thought right available, and commodious, and in avoiding of Outlawries hereafter to be pronounced against any Person by Reason of such foreign Suits, to have Continuance, and perpetually to endure:' (3)Be it therefore, by the King our Sovereign Lord, with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same Parliament, enacted, ordained, and established, Thatif and where any Writ of Exigent, at any Time from the Fifteenth Day ofEaster next coming, or after, shall be awarded at the Suit of our Sovereign Lord the King, or any other Person or Persons, Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, in any Action personal, against any Person or Persons called of any Shire or City, being a Shire-corporate of itself, or else late of any such Shire or City, other than into such Shire or City whereinto such Exigent shall be awarded, to be called according to the Law; (4)and also in every Writ of Exigent in any Action personal, whereof the Process or Exigent at the said Fifteenth Day ofEaster , or after, shall be directed into London or Middlesex , the Defendant being called late of London , or late of Middlesex , and at the Time of the Exigent awarded not dwelling in London , nor in Middlesex , or else that the said Defendant or Defendants in the same Exigent dwell in any other Shire or Place than where the King's Writ runneth; (5) then the Justices before whom any such Exigent is to be awarded, in all Actions where the Exigent shall not be directed into London nor Middlesex , to award a Writ of Proclamation to be directed to the Sheriff of the same County, where it doth appear by the using of...
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