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Stat. Glouc. - Actions Act 1278

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1278 c. 8
Year1278
Statutes made at Gloucester, 4 Octobris, Anno 6 Edw I. and Anno Dom. 1278 No Suit for Goods in the King's Courts under Forty Shillings. Attorneys may be made where an Appeal lieth not. The Defendant being essoined shall bring in his Warrant.

(6 Edw. 1) C A P. VIII.

'IT is provided also, That Sheriffsshall plead Pleas of Trespass in their Counties, as they have been accustomed to be pleaded. (2) And that none from henceforth shall have Writs of Trespass before Justices, unless he swear by his Faith, that the Goods taken away were worth Forty Shillings at the least. (3) And if he complain of Beating, he shall answer by his Faith, that his Plaint is true. (4) Touching Wounds and Maims, a Man shall have his Writas before hath been used; (5) and it is agreed, that the Defendants in such Pleas may make their Attornies, where Appeal lieth not; (6) so that if they be attainted being absent, then the Sheriff shall be commanded to take them, and shall have like Pain as they should have had, if they had been present at the Judgement given. (7) And if the Plaintiffs from henceforth in such Trespasses cause themselves to be essoined after the first Appearance, Day shall be given them unto the coming of the Justices in Eyre, and the Defendants in the mean Time shall be in Peace. (8) In such Pleas and other, whereas Attachments and...

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