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Stat. Westm. sec. - Suits Before Justices in Eyre Act 1285

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1285 c. 10
Year1285
The Statute of WESTMINSTER the Second, made Anno 13 Edw I Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1285 At what Time Writs shall be delivered for Suits depending before Justices in Eyre. Any Person may make a general Attorney.

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

‘WHereas in the Circuitof Justices it was proclaimed, That all such as would deliver Writs, should deliver them within a certain Time, after which no Writ should be received; many trusting upon the same, and tarrying until the said Time, and no Writ served upon them, departed by Licence of the said Justices; after whose Departure their Adversaries, perceiving their Absence, delivered their Writs in Wax, which sometimes by Fraud, and sometimes for Rewards, be received of the Sheriff; and they, that thought to have departed quiet, lose their Lands.’ '(2) For the Remedy of such Fraud from henceforth, the King hath ordained, That the *Justices in their Circuitsshall appoint a Time of fifteen Days, or a Month, or a Time more or less (after as the County shall happen to be more or less) within which Time it shall be openly proclaimed, that all such as will deliver their Writs, shall deliver them before the same Time; (3) and when the Time cometh, the Sheriff shall certifie the Chief Justice in Eyre how many Writs he hath, and what, and that no Writ be received after the same Time; (4) and if it be received, the Process issuing thereupon shall be of none Effect; but only that a Writ abated any Time during the Circuit may be amended; (5) also Writs of Dower of Men that died within the Summons of the Circuit, Assises ofDarrain presentment, Quare impedit , of Churches vacant within the foresaid Summons, shall be received at any Time before the Departure of the Justices; (6) also Writs...

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