Special Bail Act 1692
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1692 c. 4 |
| Year | 1692 |
(4 Will. & Mar.) C A P. IV.
'F O R the greater Ease and Benefit of all Persons whatsoever, in taking the Recognizances of special Bails upon all Actions and Suits depending, or to be depending, in any of the Courts ofKing's Bench , Common Pleas , or Exchequer at Westminster ; Be it enacted by the King's and Queen's most Excellent Majesties, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the chief Justice and other the Justicesof the Court ofKing's Bench for the time being, or any two of them whereof the chief Justice for the time being to be one for the said Court of King's Bench , and the chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , and other the Justices there for the time being, or any two of them, whereof the chief Justice of the same Court to be one for the said Court of Common Pleas , and also the chief Baron and Barons of the Quoif of the Court of the Exchequer for the time being, or any two of them whereof the chief Baron for the time being to be one for the said Court of Exchequer , shall or may, by one or more Commission for Commissions under the several Seals of the said respective Courts, from time to time, as need shall require, impower such and so many Persons, other than common Attornies and Solicitors, as they shall think fit and necessary, in all and every the several Shires and Counties within the Kingdom of England , Dominion of Wales , and Town of Berwick upon Tweed , to take and receive all and every such Recognizanceor Recognizances of Bail or Bails, as any Person or Persons shall be willing or desirous to acknowledge or make before any of the Persons so impowered, in any Action or Suit depending or hereafter to be depending in the said respective Courts, or any of them, in such Manner and Form, and by such Recognizance or Bail-piece, as the Justices and Barons of the said respective Courts have used to take the same; which said Recognizance or Recognizances, or Bail or Bail-piece, so taken as aforesaid, shall be transmitted to some or one of the Justices or Barons of the said respective Courts where such Action or Suit shall be depending, who, upon Affidavit made of the due taking of the Recognizance of such Bail or...
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