Commission the Defend ’ may plead not guilty or Justifie and the whole matter shall be brought in Evidence according to the very truth thereof and if the verdict pass for the Defend ’ he shall have his costs 26. The Commissioners shall proceed to Execution notwithstanding the death of the Bankrupt 27. All laws made against Bankrupts shall be construed beneficially for the Creditors 28. Persons of Trade and Scriveners that procure protection except of Parliament and all such as by exhibiting petitions endeavour to compel their Creditors to take less than their due debts or to gain time for the payment thereof or being indebted in 100 l. or more shall not satisfie the same within 6 months after the same grows due and the Debtor arrested or within 6 months after the original writ sued out and notice given thereof in writing at the place of his abode or after arrest escape out of prison or procure enlargement by putting in common bayle shall be adjudged Bankrupt and in case of arrest from the time of the arrest 29. Commissions and other proceedings provided by 13 El. 7. and 1 Jac. 15. shall also be pursued against him that by this act is prescribed to be a Bankrupt and proceedings provided by this act shall be pursued against him that is described in the other 2. 30. The Bankrupts wife shall also be examined upon oath and if she appear not or refuse to be examined she shall incurr the punishment inflicted by the former lawes in like cases 31. The Bankrupt that fraudulently concealeth his goods or tendreth not some just reason why he became Bankrupt shall after conviction be set in the pillory and lose one of his ears 32. The Commissioners may by themselves or others break open the Bankrupts house or chests c. where his Estate is or is reputed to be and then seise and order his body or Estate as by the former laws is ordained 33. In the Distribution of the Bankrupts Estate no more respect shall be had unto debts upon Judgment Recognizances specialties with penalties or the like than to other debts 34. The Commissioners may proceed when the Bankrupt by fraud makes himself accomptant to the King 35. Another mans goods in the Bankrupts possession shall be also distributed by the Commissioners as the Bankrupts own goods 36. The Commissioners grant of the Bankrupts entailed Estate shall be good except when the reversion or remainder is in the King 37. No Purchaser shall be impeached by this or the former act unless the Commission be sued forth within 5 years after he becomes bankrupt 38. This act as also all the former shall extend to Strangers both Aliens and Denizens as well as to subjects born as well to be relieved as also to be subject to the penalty thereof 39. Whereas divers Noblemen and Gentlemen not brought up in trade have notwithstanding put great stocks into the East India and Guiny company it is declared that no person adventurer for putting in mony or Merchandize into the said Companies or for adventuring or managing the fishing called the royal fishing Trade shall be taken or reputed a merchant or trader within any stat ’ for Bankrupt or be lyable to the same 40. Provided that persons Trading or trafficking in any other manner than in the said companies or fishing shall be lyable to the Commission of Bankrupts Baron and Femme ALL marriages shall be adjudged Lawful that are not prohibited by Gods Law Brief 1. IN Original Writs where Exigent shall be awarded Addition of the Defendants condition and dwelling shall be inserted 2. Outlawries otherwise prosecuted shall be void 3. Surplusage of Additions shall not prejudice albeit the writ do therein vary from the Records and Deeds 4. The Clerks of the Chancery shall not omit such additions in pain to be fined at the discretion of the Chancellor 5. Original Writs may be sued upon personal actions against Prisoners in the Fleet and an Habeas Corpus granted to bring them to the Bar to answer any suit or declaration being put in and the defendant not appearing Judgement may be entred by nihil dicit and the Prisoner charged in Execution upon notice hereof to the Warden of the Fleet by rule of Court 6. In Actions of debt and other personal actions and Ejectione firmae in any of the said Courts after Issue joined to be tried by the Jury and after Judgement obtained there shall not need to be fifteen dayes between the Teste and return of any venire fac ’ Hab ’ corpora jurator ’ Distringas Fieri fac ’ or Cap ’ ad satisfac ’ and the want of it shall be no error 7. Provided this extend not to Writs of Cap ’ ad satisfac ’ where any exigent after Judgement is to be awarded nor to any Cap ’ ad satisfac ’ in order to make any bail triable Certiorari CErtioraries shall not be allowed unless the Indicted will become bound with sufficient sureties such as the Justices of Peace in Sess ’ shall like of to pay to the prosecutor within one month after conviction such costs and damages as the said Justices shall assess Conditions 1. GRantees of Reversions may take advantage of conditions and covenants against Lessees of the same Lands as fully as the Lessors their heirs or successors might have done 2. Lessees may also have the like remedy against the grantees of Reversions which they might have had against their Lessors or Grantors their heirs or successors all advantage of recoveries in value by reason of any Warranty in deed or Law by voucher or otherwise only excepted Costs 1. THere shall be no costs awarded to the Defendant when any Action is sued to the Kings use 2. In personal Actions in the Courts at Westminster being not for land or battery when it shall appear to the Judges and so by them signified that the debt or damage to be recovered amount not to the summe of 40 s or above the said Judges shall award to the plaintiff no more costs than damages 3. If the defendant or plaintiff be non-suit or overthrown by lawful trial in any action whatsoever the tenant or defendant shall have costs to be assessed and levied by the 23 H. 8. c. 15. 4. If any person sue a writ of Error to reverse a Judgement after verdict and the said Judgement is afterwards affirm'd he shall pay to the defendant in the Writ of Error double Costs to be assessed by the Court where such Writ of Error shall be depending 5. In all actions of Trespass Assault and Battery and other personal actions wherein the Judge at the trial of the cause shall not find and certifie under his hand upon the back of the Record that an Assault and Battery was sufficiently proved or that the freehold or title of the Land was chiesly in question the plaintiff shall have no more costs than damages in cases the Jury find
as the persons upon whose lives the estate depends shall live and shall recover against the lessors c. or other persons upon action for damages the full profits with lawfull interest Error 1. HE in reversion shall have a writ of Error upon an erroneous Judgment given against tenant for life 2. For preventing abatement of writs of Error upon Judgment in the Exchequer enacted That the not coming of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer or either of them at the day of the return of any writ of Error to be sued forth by Vertue of the Statute 31 Ed. 3. c. 12. recited in the Statute 31 El. c. 1. shall not cause any abatement or discontinuance of any such writ of Error But if both the Chief Justices of either Bench or either of them or any one of the said great officers the Lord Chancellour or Lord Treasurer shall come to the Exchequer Chamber and there be present at the day of the return of any such writ of Error it shall be no abatement or discontinuance But the suit shall proceed to all intents as if the said Lord Chancellour and Lord Treasurer had come and been present at the day and place of return of such writ 3. After a verdict of 12 men in any action suit bill or demand commenced after the 25 th of March 1665. in any of the Courts of Record at Westminster or Courts of Record in the County Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or Court of the great Session or in any of the 12 shires of Wales Judgment thereupon shall not be stayed or reversed for default in forme or lack of forme or lack of pledges or but one pledge to prosecute returned upon the Original writ or for default of entring of pledges upon any bill or declaration or for default of bringing into Court of any Bond Bill Indenture or other deed whatsoever mentioned in the declaration or other pleading or for default of allegation of the bringing into Court of letters Testamentary or letters of Administration or by reason of the Omission of Vi armis or contra pacem or for mistaking of the Christian name or Sur-name of the plaint ’ or defend ’ demand ’ or Tenant summe or summes of money day month or year by the Clarke in any Bill Declaration or pleading where the right name Sur-name summe day of the month or year in any writ plaint Roll or Record preceeding or in the same Roll or Record where the mistake is committed is rightly alledged whereunto the plaintiffe might have demurred and shewen the same for cause Nor for want of the averrment of Hoc paratus est Verificare per Recordum or for not alledging prout patet per Recordum or for that there is no right Venue so as the cause were tryed by a Jury of the proper County or place where the acted is layd 4. Nor any Judgment after Verdict confession by Cognovit actionem or relicta verificatione shall be reversed for want of misericordia or Capiatur or by reason that a Capiatur is entered for a misericordia or a misericordia for a Capiatur Nor that Ideo concessum est per Curiam is entered for ideo consideratum est per Curiam nor for that encrease of costs after a Verdict in any action or upon a nonsuit in Replevin are not entred to be at the request of the party for whom the Judgment is given nor by reason that the costs in any acton whatsoever are not entered to be by consent of the plaint ’ But that all such omissions variances defects and other matters of like nature not being against the right of the matter of the suits nor whereby the issue or Tryal are alter'd shall be amended by the Justices and other Iudges of the Courts where such Judgments are or shall be given or whereupon the record is or shall be removed by writ of errour 5. Provided this Act extend not to any writ declaration or suit of Appeal of Felony or Murther nor any Indictment nor presentment of Felony Murther Treason or other matter nor to any processe upon any of them nor to any writ Bill action or Information upon any penal Statute other than concerning Customes and subsidies of Tunnage and poundage 6. And after the 20 th of March 1664. no execution shall be stayed in any of the aforesaid Courts by writ of Errour or supersedeas thereupon after Verdict and Judgment in any action personal whatsoever unless a recognisance with condition according to the former Statute made 3 Jac. c. 8. shall be first acknowledged in the Court where such Judgment shall be given 7. In writs of Errour to be brought upon any Iudgment after Verdict in any writ of Dower or of Ejectione firmae no Execution shall be stayed unless the plaint ’ in such writ of Error shall be bound to the plaint ’ in such writ of Dower or Ejectione firmae in such reasonable summ as the Court to which such writ of Error shall be directed shall think fit with condition that if the Judgment shall be affirmed in the said writ of Error or the writ of Error discontinued in default of the plaint ’ therein or that the said plaint ’ be nonsuit in such writ of Error that then the plaint ’ shall pay such costs dammages and summs of money as shall be awarded after such Iudgment affirmed discontinuance or nonsuit And the Court wherein such execution ought to be granted upon such affirmation discontinuance or nonsuit shall issue a writ to enquire as well of the mean profits as of the damages by any wayes committed after the first Iudgment in Dower or Ejectione firmae And upon return thereof Iudgment shall be given and execution awarded for such mean profits and damages and for costs of suit 8. Provided this Act extend not to any writ of Error to be brought by any Executor or Administrator nor any action Popular nor to any other action which is or shall be brought upon any penal law or statute except actions of debt for not setting forth of Tythes Nor to any Indictment presentment Inquisition Information or Appeal 9. This Act to continue in force for three years and to the end of the next session of Parliament after the said three years and no longer 10. In all Actions personal real or mixt the death of either party between the Verdict and Judgement shall not be alledged for error so as such Judgement be entred within two terms after such Verdict 11. This Act to continue for the space of five years and from thence to the end of the next Sessions of Parliament 12. Judgement shall or may be given in any Suit or Writ or Writs of Error in the Exchequer in the preseuce of the Lord Keeper notwithstanding the vacancy of a Lord Treasurer in such manner as hath been accustomed where there was present both the Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer Excommengement 1. EVery Writ de
Excommunicato capiendo shall be made in Term time and returnable in the Kings Bench the next day after the Teste thereof having 20 dayes betwixt the Teste and return 2. After the Writ shall be sealed it shall be forthwith brought into the Kings Bench and there opened and delivered of record to the Sheriff or other Officer or other Deputies to whom the Execution thereof appertains and then if the Sheriff or other Officer do not duly execute it the Justices shall amerce him at their discretion and estreat the amercement into the Exchequer 3. At the return of the Writ the Sheriff or other Officer c. shall not be compelled to bring the party arrested into the Kings Bench but only return the Writ with a short Declaration how it was executed to the end the Justices may proceed therein according to the tenor of this act 4. If the Sheriff or c. return a non est inventus then shall issue out of the Kings Bench a Capias returnable in term time two months at least after the teste thereof with a Proclamation to be made 10 dayes at least before the return in the County Court Assise Gaol-delivery or Sessions that the party shall within 6 dayes after such Proclamation yield his body to the Gaol and there remain as a Prisoner in pain of 10 l. and what shall be done therein and thereupon shall be returned by the Sheriff or c. 5. If upon the return it appear that the party hath not rendred himself prisoner upon the first Capias he shall forfeit 10 l. more to be estreated as aforesaid and then a second Capias shall be awarded against him with a pain to forfeit 20 l. to be estreated by the Justices as aforesaid and then a third Capias shall be awarded with like Proclamation and pain and then a fourth and so infinitely until he render himself prisoner upon the several returns whereof he shall forfeit 20 l. to be estreated as aforesaid 6. The party yielding his body shall be committed to prison in like sort as is he had been taken upon the Excom Cap. 7. If the Sheriff c. make a false return upon any of the said Writs he shall forfeit to the party grieved 40 l. 8. The Bishops Authority to receive submission and deliver the Excommunicate is saved according to the former usuage viz. by a certificate thereof from the Bailiff into the Chancery and then a Writ from thence to deliver the Prisoner 9. In Wales the Counties Palatine of Lancaster Chester and Durham and Ely the Cinque Ports being Jurisdictions exempt where the Queens Writ runneth not a Significavit being of Record in Chancery shall be sent by Mittimus to the Justices or head Officers there who shall then proceed against the Excommunicate as the Kings Bench is above directed 10. If in the Excom Cap. the Excommunicate have not a sufficient addition according to the Statute 1 H 5. 5. or if in the Significavit it be not contained that the Excommunication proceeds upon some cause or contempt of some original matter of Heresie refusing to have his child baptised refusing to receive the Sacrament to come to Divine Service or Errors in matters of Religion or Doctrine Incontinency Usury Symony Perjury in the Ecclesiastical Court or Idolatry he shall not incurr the penalties aforesaid 11. If the Addition be with a nuper of such a place the first Capias and Proclamation shall issue forth without any penalty and in such case also if the party be proclaimed in a County where he is not for the most part resiant he shall not incurr the penalties aforesaid 12. Persons in Prison under age non sane memory shall not incur the penalties aforesaid Execution 1. IF Lands delivered in Execution on just cause be recovered without sraud from the tenant in Execution before he shall have levied his whole debt and damages he may have a scire fac ’ out of the Court from whence he had his Execution returnable into the same Court at a day 40 dayes at least after the date of such scire fac ’ At which day if the Defendant being lawfully warned make default or do appear and not plead a sufficient cause other than the former acceptance of the Lands to avoid the said suit for the residue of the said debt and damages the said Court shall award a new writ of Execution for the levying thereof 2. No Execution shall be stayed upon any Writ of Error or Supersedeas thereupon for the reversing of a Judgement in any Action of debt or upon any contract in the Courts at Westminster of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster or Chester or of the great Sessions in Wales unless the Plaintift with two sufficient sureties such as the Court shall like of shall first be bound to the party for whom such judgement is given by Recognizance in the same Court in double the summe adjudged to prosecute the said Writ of Error with effect and to pay if the judgement be affirmed all debts damages and costs so adjudged and all costs and damages for delaying the Execution by the Writ of Error 3. The parties or party at whose suit any person shall stand charged in Execution for debt or damages recovered their Executors Administrators may after the death of the person so charged in Execution lawfully sue forth new Execution against the Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels of the person deceased in like manner as if the person deceased had never been taken in Execution Howbeit this act shall not extend to Lands sold lona fide after the Judgement given when the money raised thereupon is paid or secured to be paid to Creditors in discharge of due debts 4. For further remedy against the staying of Execution after Judgement in part provided against by the Stat ’ 3 Jac. c. 8. no Execution shall be stayed in any of the said Courts by Writ of Error or Supersedeas after Verdict and Judgement in Action of debt upon the Stat ’ of 2 E. 6. for Tythes promise for payment of money Trover Covenant Detinue or Trespass unless such Recognisance in the same Court be first entred as directed by the said Statute and if such Judgement be affirmed the party presenting such Writ of Error to pay double costs for such delay 5. Proviso this Act shall not extend to any popular action except 2 E. 6. nor to any Indictment Information Inquisition or Appeal 6. When any Judgement Statute or Recognizance shall be extended it shall not be avoided or delayed by occasion of omission of any part of the Lands or Tenements extendible saving always the remedy of Contribution against such person whose Lands be or shall be extended out of such extent for time to come 7. This Act gives no extent or contribution against any Heir within the age of 21 years during such minority further than might have been before this Act. 8. Provided this Act extend
present Session of Parliament and for any title or cause hereafter accruing within 20 years after such title or cause so accruing otherwise such title shall be for ever barred and the party claiming utterly excluded from entry 10. None now having any right or title of entry into any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments now held from him or them shall thereinto enter but within 20 years next after the end of this Session of Parliament or within 20 years next after any other title accrued And none shall at any time hereafter make any entrie into Lands Tenements or Hereditaments but within 20 years next after his or their right or title which shall hereafter first descend or accrue to the same 11. The titles of any Infant Femme covert non compos mentis one imprison'd or beyond sea are saved so as they commence their suit within 10 years after such imperfections removed 12. All actions upon the case other then for Slander actions for accompt other then such as concern Merchandise Actions of Trespasse debt detinue Trover and Replevin shall be commenced within 3 years after this present Session of Parliament or within 6 years after the cause of suit and not after 13. All actions of Trespass of assault Battery wounding and imprisonment shall be commenced within one year after this Sessions or within 4 years after the cause of suit and not after 14. All actions upon the case for words shall be commenced within one year after this present Session or within 2 years after the words spoken and not after 15. Provided that if in any such actions Judgment be given for the plaint ’ and the same be reversed by Error or a Verdict pass for him and upon motion in arrest of Judgment it is given against him or if the defend ’ be outlawed in the suit and after reverse the Outlawry in these cases the plaint ’ his Heires Executors or Administrators may commence a new action within a year after such Judgment reversed or given against the plaint ’ or outlawry so reversed and not after 16. The right of action in the cases abovesaid is saved to an Infant Femme covert non compos mentis a person imprison'd or beyond sea as they commence their suit within the times above limited respectively after their imperfections removed Maintenance 1. NOne shall buy any pretended right or title to any land unless the Seller hath taken the profits thereof one whole year before such bargain in pain that both the buyer and seller shall each of them forfeit the value of the same Land to be divided betwixt the King and the Prosecutor 2. None shall unlawfully maintain any suit or action retain any person for maintenance imbrace Jurors or suborn witnesses to the hindrance of Justice or the procurement of perjury in pain to forfeit for every such offence 10 l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor 3. Howbeit purchasing of a pretended title by him that is already lawfully possessed of the thing whereunto title is made is lawful 4. Proclamations shall be made at the Assises of the Statutes made against Maintenance Champertie Embracery and unlawful Retainers 5. The Offenders against this Act shall be porsecuted within one year Market Fair. 1. EVery Seller or Exchanger of a Horse in a Fair or Market which being unknown to the Toll taker or Book-keeper doth not procure one credible person that is well known unto him to vouch the sale of the same horse Also every false voucher and the Toll-taker or Book-keeper that suffers such sale or exchange to pass shall forfeit 5 l. to be divided betwixt the Queen and the prosecutor And besides the sale of such horse shall be void 2. The names of the Buyer Seller and voucher and the price of the horse shall be enter'd in the Toll-book and a note thereof deliver'd to the Buyer under the Toll-takers or Book-keepers hand for which the Buyer shall pay 2 d. 3. Notwithstanding such sale and voucher as aforesaid the right owner or his Executors may redeem a stolne horse if they claim him within 6 moneths after the stealing at the parish or Corporation where he shall find him and make proof by 2 sufficient witnesses before the next Justice of peace in the Country or before the head officer of a Corporation that the horse was his and repay to the Buyer such price for the horse as the same buyer shall upon his own oath before such Justice or officer testifie to have paid for him Nonsuit 1. WHere before Justices of Assise the parties are adjourned for some difficultie in Law upon the matter found in this case the plaint ’ shall not be nonsuited albeit the verdict pass against him 2. Unless the plaint ’ named in any writ Bill or process in B. R. or C. B. shall put into the Court a declaration against the persons arrested in some personal action or Ejectione firmae of Lands or tenements before the end of the term next sollowing after Appearence then a Nonsuit for want of a Declaration may be entred against the plaint ’ in the said Courts respectively Obligation SHeriffes and other officers shall take no bond of any arrested person but for appearance and to themselves onely and shall not take for it more then 4 d. and bonds otherwise taken colore officii shall be void Office 1. NOne shall bargain or sell any Office or Deputation or any part thereof or receive or take any money fee reward or other profit directly or indirectly or any promise agreement bond or assurance to receive any such profit for the same which office shall concern the administration or execution of Justice or the receipt controlment or payment of any of the Kings money or revenue or any Accompt Aulnage Auditorship or surveying of any of the Kings Lands or any of his customes or any administration or attendance in any Custome-house or the keeping of any of the Kings Towns Castles or Fortresses being places of strength or defence or any Clerkship in any Court of Record in pain that the Bargainee thereof shall lose his place and the Bargainor be adjudged disable to execute the same and every such bargain and agreement shall be void 2. Provided that this Act shall not extend to any office or Inheritance or for the Keeping of a Park House Mannor Garden Chace or Forest nor to the two Chief Justices or Justices of Assize but that they may grant offices as they did before the making of this Act Also all acts done by an Officer removeable by force of this statute shall be good in law until he be removed 3. An action brought against a Justice of Peace Maior or Bailiffe of a Corporation Headborough Portreeve Constable Tithingman or Collector of Subsidies or fifteens for any thing done by reason of their several offices both they and all their assistants may plead the general issue and yet give the special matter in evidence 4.
bowes and Arrowes according to the statute shall be prosecuted at the Assizes or Sessions of the County or at the Leet within which the Offence was committed and not elsewhere 10. Actions popular which may be presented before Iustices of Assise Nisi prius G. D. Oyer and Terminer or of P. shall be prosecuted onely in the Counties where the offences were committed except for Recusancy Maintenance Champerty buying of Titles concealing of customes c. or transporting of gold silver munition wool woolfells or leather 11. Upon default of proving that the offence was committed in the same County the defendant shall be found not guilty 12. The Informer shall make oath that the Osfence was committed in the same County where the action is laid and within one year before the suit commenced 13. The defend ’ in a popular action may plead the general issue and yet give special matter in evidence 14. An Informer shall exhibit his suit in proper person and pursue it by himself or by his Attorney in Court and that by way of Information or original action and shall have no deputy and all this in pain of 10. pound and the Pillory 15. A note of the time of exhibiting the Information shall be truly taken and from thenceforth it shall be accounted to be of record before which time no processe shall issue out upon it 16. The Clark that makes out the processe shall indorse the Informers name and also the statute upon which the Information is grounded in pain of 40 s. 17. No Jury shall appear at Westminster for a Tryal upon any penal law when the offence was committed above 30 miles from Westminster except the Attorney general for some reasonable cause require the same 18. No Informer shall compound with any defend ’ before answer nor then but by consent of Court in pain of 10 l. and the pillory 19. Where the Informer delayes or discontinues his suit or otherwise is Nonsuit or overthrown the court shall assigne costs to the defend ’ to be immediatly levied by Execution issuing out of the same Court 20. Iustices of Oyer and Terminer Assize and Peace in their Sessions have power to hear and determine these offences 21. This Act shall not restrain Actions brought for Maintenance Champerty buying of titles or Imbruary nor any certain person or body Politique to whom any forfeiture or penalty is specially limited nor certain Officers who have lawfully used to exhibite Informations Amendment 1. THE Justices before whom any default shall be found by misprision of a Clerk in one syllable or letter too much or too little in any Record or Process may amend the same as well aster Judgment as before so long as such Record or Process shall continue before them 2. This shall not extend to any Record or Process whereby any person is out-Lawed nor to Wales 3. No Judgment or Record shall be reversed or annulled for error assigned by reason of the razing or interlining of any Record Process Warrant Writ Pannel or Return or of any Addition Substracton or Diminution of Words Letters Titles or parcel of Letters found in the same 4. The Judges may reform all desects in any Record Process Wards Plea Warr ’ Writ Pannel or Return except Appeals Indictments of Treason or Felony and Outlawries of the same and the substance of the proper names sur-names and Additions left out in Original Writs Exigents and in other Writs of Proclamation contrary to he Statute of 1 H 5 5. concerning Additions so that by such misprision of the Clerk no Judgment shall be reversed or annulled 5. Variance alledged between a Record and the certificate thereof shall be amended by the Judges 6. If a Record Process Writ Warrant Pannel Return or any parcel thereof be exemplified under the great Seal and inrolled for any Error assigned in the said Record c. in any Letter Word Clause or Matter varying or contrary to the exemplification or enrollment there shall be no Judgment reversed or annulled 7. The Justices may amend the misprision and defaults of Clerks of the Court or of Sheriffs their Clerks and of all other Officers whatsoever found before them in any Record or Process or the Return of the same by reason of writing one letter or one syllable too much or too little except in Records and Processes within Wales and of Felonies and Treasons and the dependants of the same 8. After demurrer joyned and entred the Judges shall proceed and give Judgment according to the right of the cause and matter in Law without regard to any defect in the proceeding except such only as the party shall express together with his Demurrer After which time no Judgment shall be reversed by Writ of Error or for any other defect then such as he shall there mention and if there happen to be any other the Judges may amend there 9. This Act shall not extend to the proceeding in an Appeal of Felony or Murder upon an Indictment Presentment or penal Statute Attaint 1. HE in the reversion shall have an Attaint or writ of Error upon a false Verdict found or an erroneous Judgment given against the particular Tenant 2. If the Oath be found false or the Judgment erroneous and the Tenant still in life he shall be restored to his possession and issues and the Reversioner to the arrerages But if he be dead or be found of Covin with the demandant the Reversioner shall have all Yet the Tenant may traverse the Covin by scire facias out of the Judgment or writ of Attaint if he please 3. Upon every untrue Verdict before Iudges of Record except where the thing in demand extendeth not to the value of 40. l. or concerneth life the party grieved shall have an Attaint against the pettie Jury and also against the party that hath the Judgement thereupon 4. The Process here shall be Summons Resummons and distress infinite as well against the petty Jury and the party as against the grand Jury who shall be of the accustomed number and have Lands to the yearly value of 20 markes out of Auntient demesne 5. The distresse shall be awarded 15 dayes before the return of it and shall be made upon the land of every one of the grand Jury as is used in other distresses 6. Albeit the Defend ’ or petty Jury or some of them appear not yet the Grand Jury shall proceed 7. If any of the petty Jury appear the Plaint ’ shall assigne the false serement whereunto the petty Jury shall have no other answer if they be the same persons and the writ process and assignement be good but that they made true serement which shall be tryed by 24 of the grand Jury unless the Plaint ’ hath before been nonsuited or discontinued his suit or had Judgement against the Jury for the same Verdict 8. Howbeit that the Defend ’ may plead that they gave a true verdict or any other matter
damages under 40 s. Continuance Discontinuance 1. THe death of the King shall not discontinue any suit betwixt party and party neither shall the variance between the Original and Judicial process in respect of the Kings name â—e material as concerning any fault to be alledged therefore 2. Assises of Novel disseisin Mortdancestor Juris uâ—rum or Attaints shall not be discontinued by reason of death new Commissions or Associations or the not coming of the same Justices to any of them 3. Preferment of the demandant or plaintiff to be Duke Archbishop Marquess Earl Vicount Baron Bishop Knight Justice of the one bench or the other or Serjeant at Law shall not make the suit abatable 4. Preferment of a Justice of Assise Gaol-delivery or Peace or of any other Commissioners to the dignities aforesaid shall not lessen his power 5. New Justices of Gaol-delivery may give Judgement of a Prisoner sound guilty of Treason or Felony though he were reprieved by other Justices 6. No Process or suit before Justices of Assise Gaol-delivery Oyer and Terminer or Peace or other of the Kings Commissioners shall be discontinued by a new Commission or by the alteration of any of their names Court Admiralty 1. THe Admirals Court shall not have cognizance of any thing done within the Realm but onely upon the Sea 2. The party grieved upon non-observance of the 13 R. 2. c. 5. shall by action upon his case recover double damages against the Prosecutor in the Admiralty and the Prosecutor shall also forfeit 10 l. to the King Damages 1. WHen any person bound by a Judgement shall sue before Execution had a Writ of Error to reverse it if the Judgement be affirmed the Writ discontinued or the party that sueth it be non-suit the party against whom the Writ is brought shall recover his costs and damages at the discretion of the Justices before whom the said Writ is sued 2. If the Plaintiff be non-suit or overthrown by lawful trial in any Action Bill or Plaint for trespass upon the 5 R. 2. c. 7. or for any debt or covenant upon specialty or contract or for detinue accompt upon the case or upon any Statute the defendant shall have his costs to be assessed by the Judge or Judges of the Courts and to be recovered as the plaintiff might have recovered his in case Judgement had been given for him 3. He that sues in forma pauperis shall not pay costs but shall suffer such punishment as the Justices or Judge of the Court shall think fit 4. When any person shall sue forth of the Kings Bench any Latitat Alias and Pluries Capias against any person who thereupon doth appear and put in bail if the plaintiff do not declare within three dayes after or do after declaration delay or discontinue his suit or be non-suit the Judges of that Court shall thereupon award damages against the plaintiff 5. The like shall be done in the Courts of the Marshalsea London and all other Corporations and Liberties where the Courts are kept de die in diem but where they are not so kept then the plaintiff must declare at the next Court after appearance unless he have longer time allowed him by the Court. 6. If any shall malitiously for vexation and trouble cause or procure any person to be arrested or attached to answer in any of the said Courts at the suit of any person whereas there is none such or without the consent and agreement of the party at whose suit such arrest and attachment is procured the party so causing or procuring the same and thereof convict by indictment presentment the testimony of two or more witnesses or other due proof shall suffer six months imprisonment without bail and shall not be enlarged until he have satisfied the party grieved his treble damages and besides shall forfeit unto him if he be known 10 l. to be recovered as also treble damages by action of Debt Bill or Plaint in any Court against the party so offending his Executors or Administrators in which no Essoign c. shall be allowed 7. In personal actions in the Courts at Westminster being not for Land or Battery when it shall appear to the Judges and so by them signisied that the debt or damages to be recovered amount not to the summe of 40 s. or above the said Judges shall award to the Plaintiff no more costs than damages but less at their discretion Defalt Apparence 1. NO Filizer Exigenter or other Ossicer whatsoever in any suit shall make entry that the Plaintiff obtulit se in propria persona sua unless the Plaintiff before such entry made doth indeed appear in proper person before some of the Justices of the place where the Plea depends and either by himself or some other credible person of his Counsel make oath that he is the same person in whose name that suit is commenced and prosecuted Devlse Testament 1. EVery person having mannors Lands tenements or hereditaments holden in Socage or of the Nature of Socage tenure and not having any mannors Lands c. holden of the King by Knights service Socage tenure in chiefe nor of any other person by knights service shall have power to give dispose will and devise as well by his last will and testament in writing as otherwise by any act executed in his life all such mannors Lands c. at his pleasure 2. Where the Stat ’ 32 H. 8. c. 1. mentioneth mannors Lands c. of inheritance it shall be expounded and taken of Estates in fee simple 3. Every person having a sole Estate in fee simple or seised in coparcenary or in common in fee simple in any mannors Lands tenements rents or other hereditaments in possession Reversion or Remainder and having no lands holden of the King or of any other by Knights service may give dispose will or devise to any person or persons Except bodyes Politick and corporate by his last will and testament in writing or by act executed in his life by himself solely or by himself and others joyntly severally or particularly or by all those wayes or any of them as much as in him of right is all his said maâ—nors lands tenements and hereditaments or any of them or any rents commons or other profits out of the same or any parcel thereof at his free will and pleasure Discontinuance 1. IF a woman that hath an estate in Dower for life or in Taile jointly with her husband or onely to her self or for her use in any lands c. of the Inheritance or Purchase of her husband or given to the husband and wife by the husbands ancestors or any seised to the use of the husband or his ancestors do sole or with an after-taken husbband discontinue or suffer a Recovery by covin it shall be void and he to whom the land ought to belong after the death of the said Woman may enter as if the woman were dead without
STATUTA Vetera Recentiora A Methodical Collection Abridgement OF THE Statutes That relate to the Knowledge and Practice of the COMMON-LAW By D. F. LONDON Printed by Iohn Streater Eliz. Flesher and H. Twyford Assignes of Rich. Atkyns and Ed. Atkyns Esquires And are to be sold by G. Sawbridge J. Place J. Belliager W. Place T. Basset R. Pawlet C. Wilkinson T. Dring W. Jacob C. Harper J. Leigh J. Amery J. Poole Booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborne A. D. 1672. Cum Gratia Privilegio Regiae Majestatis Preface AS General Abridgements of the Statutes of this Realm have hitherto been and will alwayes continue to be of great use so now since they are become so voluminous there seems to be a like usefulness if not a necessity of particular Abridgements to direct those whose Study and Employment is more especially conversant in some peculiar practice of the Law Some Collections of this Nature are already published One concerning the Office of a Iustice of Peace under the Title of Statuta Pacis which comprehends a great part of the Crown Law Others relating to the Kings Revenue as that of the Customes of the Excise another of the Hearth money all of great benefit in their several kinds But those statutes that immediately relate to the General Practice of the Common Law and the Courts wherein the same is used have not hitherto been collected apart and are in a manner left as the choice fruit upon the upper Branches not to be seen for the Clusters that hang below This Book therefore is designed for those Statutes wherein as there is no repetition of what hath been in any former particular Abridgements so neither is there any notice taken of the Multitude of those other Statutes some whereof refer to a part of the Realm only as those of older time w ch concern the uniting of Wales and fixing jurisdictions there and the like in Counties Palatine and of later for the drayning of the Fenns which extend but to some Countryes others are restrayned to peculiar Jurisdictions as those of the Sewers of Charitable uses Regulation of Corporations c. others which though more general respect only the Policy of the Realm in preserving its Religion Strength Trade Riches and Beauty such are the statutes that concern the Divine Service and Sacraments Anniversary Feasts and Fasts upon special Occasions the Militia Revenue Navigation Fishing Tymber Drapery and several other Manufactures rebuilding of London and many more of that kind All which though of Publique Advantage yet not having a direct Aspect upon private rights and possessions are forreign to the present design and most proper for general Abridgments in which they are to be had This being intended chiefly for the benefit of practisers and students of the Common Law that in their practice and reading they might have a ready recourse to those statutes which particularly relate thereunto It was not thought convenient to go beyond the time of Edward the 3. since when the practice of the Law has been most uniforme because most of the Old statutes as Magna Charta Merton Marlebridge West 1. 2. 3. and the rest till this time are generally but declaratory and affirmative of the Common law as my Lord Cook has observed and may now by their Antiquity and uninterrupted usage be said to be incorporated into the body of the Common Law with which this treatise medleth not The other parts of those Antient Statutes referring generally to such proceedings as now are wholly out of use and therefore not proper to be inserted such are those many Chapters that concern pleadings and other proceedings in real Actions now out of use and are already in print by the name of Magna Charta and other antient Statutes in a little volume by themselves Here therefore such only are culled out as referr to the Law as 't is now used and practised wherein such Care has been taken that nothing Material is omitted so that though it le not directly but Collaterally within the design of this Treatise they are here mentioned as the statute of Hue and Crye because many Actions are brought thereupon and those of Bankrupts being of general and dayly use c. But such statutes as have abrogated or rescinded what formerly hath been in use by the dissolution of Courts alteration of tenures Abridgment of Michaelmas Term and the like are here omitted It were to be wished that the statutes as they are here set down in Order of time in the first Table were printed at large in a volume together by themselves because of that general Objection to Abridgments that they are not of unquestionable Authority and it would be of further benefit to students if enterleaved because many of the Cases and Reports that are Extant are aptly referrable thereunto which if collected with Diligence and Iudgment would be an Excellent Comment on the same However these Tables and Abridgment are of extraordinary use for as the first Table shews what Statutes were made in every particular Kings Raign so the other furnisheth you with the common and known heads and Titles of the Com̄on Law whereto every statute referreth where at one view you may see what several statutes in several Kings Reigns have been made concerning such a Branch head or Title of the Common Law such as is used by Practisers and Students in their Common Place Books And since there is a great diversity in the Methodising of those heads as that of Fitzherbert Brook Rastal Ash and of late one more accurate by Serjeant Roles The Reader may be pleased to take notice that what he finds here is digested as nearly as could be according to the last First Table Edward 3. An̄o Reg. Cap.  4. 7. EXecutors 25. 5. Executors 31. 11. Administrators Executors 36. 15. Pleading Ric. 2. 9. 3. Attaint Error 13. 17. Resceipt 15. 3. Admiraltie vide Court Henr. 4. 2. 7. Nonsuit 2. 11. Admiraltie vide Court 4. 8. Atturney  13. Judgment 5. 8. Ley gager Henr. 5. 1. 5. Additions vide Briefe 2. 2. Corpus cum causa vide Habeas Corpus  3. Libell 9. 4. Amendment Henr. 6. 4. 3. Amendment 8. 12. Amendment  15. Amendment 10. 4. Apparance vide Default 23. 10. Sheriff vide Obligation Ric. 3. 1. 7. Fines Henr. 7. 3. 7. Damages and Costs 4. 20. Actions popular  24. Fines 11. 20. Discontinuance vide Continuance 19. 9. Error  20. Damages and Costs Henr. 8. 7. 3. Avowrie 21. 4. Executor  5. Probate of Wills vide Executors  13. Residence  15. Recoveries  19. Avowries 23. 3. Attai◠ 6. Recognisance  9. Citation  15. Damages and Costs 24. 8. Costs 27. 10. Uses and Wills  16. Inrolment 28. 13. Residence 31. 1. Partition 32. 1. Wills vide Executors  2. Limitations  5. Execution  9. Maintenance  28. Leases vide Powers  30. Repleader  32. Partition  33. Entre congeable  34.
Conditions  36. Fines  37. Rents  38. Mariages vide Baron feme 34 35. 5. Wills vide Devise  20. Recoveries Edwar. 6. 1. 7. Discontinuance vide Continuance 2 3. 13. Tithe vide Dismes 5 6. 16. Offices Phil. Mar. 1. Sess 2. 5. Limitation 4 5. 7. Tales vide Tryal  8. Maidens Eliz. 1. 19. Bishops leases vide Powers 5. 23. Excomunicato capiendo v. Excomengement 8. 2. Damages and Costs 13. 5. Fraudulent conveyances vide Fraud  6. Letters patents vide Pleading  7. Bankrupts  10. Leases and dilapidations vide Powers  20. Leases of Parsonages vide Powers 14. 8. Recoveries  9. Tales vide Tryal 18. 5. Informers vide Action popular  11. Leases of spiritual livings vide Powers  14. Jeofailes 27. 8. Fraudulent conveyances  5. Demurrers  13. Hue and cry 29. 5. Informers vide Atturney 31. 3. Exigent and Outlawry vide Utlagary  5. Actions popular  6. Simonie  10. Informers vide Atturney  12. Faires and Markets vide Market 43. 5. Corpus cum causa vide Habeas corpus  6. Damages and costs  8. Executors  12. Policies of assurance vide Merchants Jac. 1. 3. Bishops leases vide Powers  15. Bankrupts 3. 8. Delays of Execution vide Execution 4. 3. Costs for the defendant vide Costs 7. 5. Officer impleaded vide Office 21. 4. Action popular  8. Certiorari  12. Officer impleaded vide Office  13. Jeofailes  16. Limitation  19. Bankrupt  23. Corpus cum causa vide Habeas Corpus  24. Execution Car. 2. 13 sess 2. 2. Delays in execution vide Briefe and Costs 14. 21. Sheriff vide Office  23. Atturnment Merchants  24. Bankrupts 16. 2. Abatement of writs of Error vide Briefe  5. Delayes in extending Statutes v. Execution 16 17. 8. Arrest of Judgment vide Execution 17. 7. Distress and avowry vide Replevin  8. Delays vide Execution 19. 11. Decease of person beyond seas v. Entry cong 20. 4. Error 23. 9. Costs and Damages  10. Administrator vide Executors Second Table Actions popular 4 H. 7. c. 20. 31 El c. 5. 21 Jac. c. 4. 18 El c. 5. Amendment 9 H. 5. c. 4. 4 H. 6. c. 3. 8 H. 6. c. 12. c. 15. 27 El. c. 5. Attaint 9 R. 2. c. 3. 23 H. 8. c. 3. Atturney 4 H. 4. c. 18. 29 El. c. 5. 31 El. c. 10. Avowrie 7 H. 8. c. 4. 21 H. 8. c. Baile 13 Car. 2. Sess 2. c. 2. Bankrupts 13 El. c. 7. 1 Jac. c. 15. 21 Jac. c. 19. 14 Car. 2. c. 24. Baron feme 32 H. 8. c. 38. Briefe 1 H. 5. c. 5. 16 Car. 2. c. 2. Certiorari 21 Jac. c. 8. Conditions 32 H. 8. c. 34. Continuance 1 Edw. 6. c. 7. Costs 24 H. 8. c. 8. 43 El. c. 6. 4 Jac. c. 3. 13 Car. 2. Sess 2. c. 2. 22 23 Car. 2. c. 9. Court Admiraltie 2 H. 4. c. 11. Damages 3 H. 7. c. 10. 19 H. 7. c. 20. 23 H. 8. c. 15. 8 El. c. 2. 43 El. c. 6. Defalt Apparance 10 H. 6. c. 4. Devise 27 H 8. c. 10. 32 H. 8. c. 1. 34 35 H. 8. c. 5. Discontinuance 11 H. 7. c. 20. Dismes 2 3 Edw. 6. c. 13. Dower Iointure 27 H. 8. c. 10. Entrie cong 32 H. 8. c. 33. 19 Car. 2. c. 11. Error 9 R. 2. c. 3. 6 Car. 2. c. 2. 16 17 Car. 2. c. 8. 17 Car. 2. c. 8. 20 Car. 2. c. 4. Excommengement 5 El. c. 23. Execution 32 H. 8. c. 5. 3 Jac. c. 8. 21 Jac. c. 24. 16 17 Car. 2. c. 5. 71 C. 2. c. 8. Executors Administrators 31 Edw. 3. c. 11. 21 H. 8. c. 15. 23 Car. 2. c. 10. 4 Edw. 3. c. 7. 25 Edw. 3. c. 5. 21 H. 8. c. 4. 43 El. c. 8. Fine 1 R. 3. c. 7. 4 H. 7. c. 24. 32 H. 8. c. 35. Fraud 13 El. c. 5. 27. El. c. 4. Habeas Corpus 2 H. 5. c. 2. 43 El. c. 5. 21 Jac. c. 23. Hue and Cry 27 El. c. 13. Inrollment 27 H. 8. c. 16. Iudge 20 R. 2. c. 3. Ley gager 5 H. 4. c. 8. Libell 2 H. 5. c. 3. Limitation 32 H. 8. c. 2. 1 Sess 2 P. M. c. 5. 21 Jac. c. 16. Maintenance 32 H. 8. c. 9. Market 31 El. c. 12. Nonsuit 2 H. 4. c. 7. 13 Car. 2. Sess 2. c. 2. Obligation 32 H. 6. c. 10. Office 5 6 Edw. 6. c. 16. 7 Jac. c. 5. 21 Jac. c. 12. 14 Car. 2. c. 21. Partition 31 H. 8. c. 1. 32 H. 8. c. 32. Pleading 36 Edw. 3. c. 15. 13 El. c. 6. 43 El. c. 12. 14 Car. 2. c. 23. Powers 32 H. 8. c. 28. 1 El. c. 19. 13 El. c. 10. 13 El. c. 20. 18 El. c. 11. 1 Jac. c. 3. Proces 19 H. 7. c. 9. 13 Car. 2. Sess 2. c. 2. Prohibition 23 H. 8. c. 9. Recognisancc 23 H. 8. c. 6. Recoverie 21 H. 8. c. 15. 34 35 H. 8. c. 20. 14 El. c. 8. Rents 32 H. 8. c. 37. Repleader 32 H. 8. c. 30. Replevin 17 Car. 2. c. 7. Resceipt 13 R. 2. c. 17. Simonie 31 El. c. 6. Spiritual persons 21 H. 8. c. 13. 28 H. 8. c. 13. Trial. 19 Car. 2. c. 11. 4 5 P. M. c. 7. 14 El. c. 9. Uses 27 H. 8. c. 10. Utlagary 21 El. c. 3. Action Popular 1. REcovery in an action popular by covin shall be no bane in an action sued for the same thing bonâ side 2. Here the defend ’ attainted of Collusion shall suffer 2 years imprisonment to be prosecuted within one year 3. No Release of a common person shall in this case discharge an action popular 4. Yet no collusion is in this case averrable where the Point of the same action or the Collusion it self hath been tryed by Verdict 5. Informers heretofore resirained by order of any Court shall not pursue actions popular 6. In popular actions the offence shall be laid to be done in the County where indeed it was done otherwise if the defend ’ traverse and disprove that point the plaint ’ shall be barr'd 7. This act doth not restrain Officers which have lawfully used to exhibite informations nor actions brought for Champerty buying of Titles extortion offences against the statute of 1 El 11. concerning the right landing of Merchandises and custome of sweet wines concealing of customs c. corrupt usury forestalling regrating or ingrossing when the penalty shall amount to 20l. or above For in all these cases the offence may be laid in any County 8. Popular actions where the King onely hath the forfeiture shall be commenced within 2 years where he hath onely a part and the Informer the rest within one year But this is to be understood where a shorter time is not limited by any statute 9. All suits for using unlawful games or any art or mysterie without being brought up in it and for not having
only to such Statutes as be for the payment of money and to such extents as shall be within 20 years after the Statute Recognizance or Judgement had 9. This Act to continue for three years and from thence to the end of the next session of Parliament and no longer 10. Where any Judgement after a Verdict shall be had by or in the name of any Executors or Administrators in such case an Administrator de bonis non may sue forth a scire fac ’ and take Execution upon such Judgement 11. This Act to continue for the space of five years and from thence to the next sessions of Parliament Executor THe Ordinarys shall depute the next and most lawful friends of the intestate to administer the goods which deputies shall have the benefit and incurr the charge of an Executor and shall also be accountable to the Ordinaries as Executors 2. Administration of intestates goods shall be granted to the widdow or next of kin to the intestate or both as the ordinary shall think fit 3. The Ordinary or other person enabled to make distribution of the surplusage of the Estate of the Intestate shall distribute one third to the wife and all the residue equally amongst the children and such persons as legally represent his Children in case any of them be dead other than such child or children not being heire at Law who shall have any Estate by the Settlement of the intestate or shall be advanced by the intestate in his life time by portion or portions equal to the share that shall by such distributions be allotted to the other children to whom such distribution is to be made and in case any child other than the heire at Law who shall have any Estate by Settlement from the said intestate or shall be advanced in his life time by the intestate by portion not equal to the share which will be due to the other children by such distribution as aforesaid then so much of the Surplusage of the Estate of the Intestate to be distributed to such child or children as shall have any such Land or Settlement from the Intestate or were advanced in his life time as shall make the Estate of all the said children to be equal as near as can be estimated But the heire at Law notwithstanding any Land that he shall have by descent or otherwise from the Intestate is to have an equal share in the distribution with the rest of the children without any consideration of the value of the Land which he hath by descent or otherwise from the Intestate 4. And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them then one moyetie of the said Estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate the residue of the said Estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the Intestate who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them 5. Provided that there be no representatives amongst collaterals after Brother and Sisters children and in case there be no wife then the Estate to be equally distributed to and amongst the Children and in case there be no Children then to the next of kindred in equall degree of or unto the Intestate and their Legal Representatives and in no other manner whatsoever 6. No such distribution shall be made till after one year after the Intestates death and every one to whom any Share shall be allotted shall give bond with Sureties in the said Courts to secure the Administrator pro rata if any debts be afterwards recovered 7. This Act to continue for 7 years and from thence to the next Session of Parliament 8. Executors shall have an action for a trespass done to their Testator as for his goods and Chattells carried away in his Life and shall recover their dammage in like manner as he whose Executors they are should have done if he had lived 9. Executors of Executors shall have actions of debt account and of goods carried away of the first testators and Execution of Statute Merchants and recognisances made unto him and shall also answer to others so far forth as they shall recover of the first testators goods as the first Executors should have done 10. That part of the Executors which take upon them the charge of a will may sell any land devised by the Testator to be sold albeit the other part which refuse will not joyne with them 11. If any person shall obtain any goods or debts of an intestate or releases or other discharge of any debt or duty which belonged to the intestate by fraud or by procuring the Administration to be granted to a stranger of mean estate and not to be found with intent thereby to obtain the intestates estate and not upon valuable consideration or in satisfaction of some just debt answerable to the value of the goods so obtained in such case such person shall be chargeable as Executor of his own wrong so far as the value of the goods or debts so obtained shall amount unto Howbeit he shall also be allowed such reasonable deductions as other Executors or Administrators ought to have Fines 1. AFine shall after the ingrossing thereof be openly read and proclaimed in the common pleas the same term and there the three next terms after upon four several days and in the mean time all pleas shall cease 2. A transcript of the fine shall be sent to the Justices of Assize of the County where the land lyeth to be there also proclaimed at every Assize holden there that year and then also all pleas shall cease 3. An other transcript thereof shall be also sent to the Justices of Peace of the same County to be in like sort proclaimed at their four Sessions holden that year And both the Justices of Assize and Peace shall make Certificate of such proclamation made the second return of the term then next following 4. A fine so proclaimed and certified shall conclude all persons both privy and Strangers Except women covert other than such women as the parties to the fine persons under age in prison out of the realm or out of sound mind if they pursue not their right title claime interest by way of action or lawful entry within 5 years after the proclamations so made and certified as aforesaid 5. The right of Strangers which happens to come unto them after the fine is engrossed is saved so that they pursue their right or title within 5 years aster it so comes to them and here an action against the pernor of the profits is maintainable 6. If the parties to whom such right or title comes be covert under age in prison out of the Land or of non sane memory they or their heirs have time to pursue their right or title within 5 years after such imperfections removed so also have they in case they had right of title at the time of the fine levied 7. Fines at