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Stat. Westm. sec. - Appeal of Felony Act 1285

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1285 c. 12
Year1285
The Statute of WESTMINSTER the Second, made Anno 13 Edw I Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1285 The Appellant being acquitted, the Appellor and Abetters shall be punished. There shall be no Essoin for the Appellor.

(13 Edw. 1) C A P. XII.

‘FOrasmuch as many, through Maliceintending to grieve other, do procure false Appeals to be made of Homicides and other Felonies by Appellors, having nothing to satisfy the Kingfor their false Appeal, nor the Parties appealed for their Damages;’ (2) 'it is ordained, That when any, being appealed of Felonysurmised upon him, doth acquit himself in the King's Court in due Manner, either at the Suit of the Appellor, or of our Lord the King, the Justices, before whom the appeal shall be heard and determined, shall punish the Appellor by a Year's Imprisonment, and the Apellorsshall nevertheless restore to the Parties appealed their Damages, according to the Discretion of the Justices, having Respect to the Imprisonment or Arrestment that the Party appealed hath sustained by reason of such Appeals, and to the Infamy that they have incurred by the Imprisonment or otherwise, and shall nevertheless make a grievous Fine unto the King. (3) And if peradventure such Appellor be not able to recompense the Damages, it shall be inquired by whose Abetment or Malice the Appeal was commenced, if the Party appealed desire it; (4) and if it be found by the same Inquest, that any Man is Abettor through Malice, at the Suit of the Party appealed, he shall be distrained by a judicial Writ to come before the Justices; (5) and if he be lawfully convict of such malicious Abetment, he shall be punished by Imprisonmentand Restitution of Damages, as before is said of the...

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