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A82351 An act for confirmation of judicial proceedings England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); England and Wales. Parliament. 1660 (1660) Wing E1005; Thomason E1075_12; ESTC R208493 4,717 11

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Anno Regni CAROLI II. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DUODECIMO At the Parliament begun at VVestminster the Five and twentieth day of April An. Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. Cum Privilegio Aug 31 Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis AN ACT For Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings BE it Enacted and it is Enacted by His Majesty and the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Fines nor final Concords Chirographs nor Proclamations of Fines nor any Recoveries Verdicts Iudgements Statutes Recognizances nor Inrolments of any Deeds or Wills or of any such Fines Proclamations Recoveries Verdicts Iudgements Statutes or Recognizances nor any Exemplifications of them nor any of them nor any Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrees Sentences Probats of Will nor Letters of Administration nor any Writs nor Actings on or Returns of Writs Orders or other Proceedings in Law or Equity had made given taken or done or depending in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Vpper Bench Common Pleas and Court of Exchequer and Courts of Exchequer-Chamber or any of them Sitting at Westminster or in the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales the Courts of any Counties Palatine or Duchy of Lancaster or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any other inferior Courts of Law or Equity or by any the Iudges Clerks Officers Sheriffs Coroners or Ministers or others Acting in Obedience to them or any of them or by any the Coutts of Admiralty Delegats Iustices of Assize Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Goal-Delivery Iustices of the Peace Commissioners of Sewers Bank-rupts or Charitable Vses nor any Actings Process Proceedings nor Executions thereupon had made given done or suffered in the Kingdom of England since the First of May One thousand six hundred forty two shall be avoided for want or defect of any Legal Power in the said Courts Iudges Commissioners Iustices or any of them or for or by reason that the Premisses or any of them were Commenced Prosecuted Had Made Held or Vsed in the Name Stile or Title of the late King or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Custodes Libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of the Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging Or of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or the Name Stile Title or Test of Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging or for or by reason of any alteration of the said Names Stiles or Titles Or for that the said Fines Recoveries Process Pleadings Proceedings and other things before mentioned Or the Entry and Enrolment of them or any of them were in the Latine or English Tongue But that all and every such Fines Recoveries and other things above mentioned and the Actings Doings and Proceedings thereupon shall be of such and of no other Force Effect and Vertue then as if such Courts Iudges Iustices Commissioners Officers and Ministers had Acted by vertue of a True Iust and Legal Authority and as if the same and the Entry and Enrolment thereof were in Latin and as if the several Acts and Ordinances or pretended Acts or Ordinances made by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assembled under the Name of a Parliament or by Oliver Cromwell late Stiled Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging and his Council Warranting or Directing such proceedings had been Good True and Effectual Acts of Parliament And whereas since the death of the late King several Fines have been Levied without any Entry or due Entring of any sum paid pro licentia concordandi commonly called the Kings Silver and without Entry or due Entry of any sum given to the Party for the Concord And also whereas in the Term of S. Michael last past several Fines were Levied and Recorded in the Court of Common Pleas before One Iudge onely of the said Court Be it Enacted That the said Fines and Proclamations thereupon and every of them shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the defects aforesaid And be it also further Enacted That all Fines Proclamations of Fines Recoveries and other Iudicial Proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster since the death of His late Majesty King Charls the First had Levied or Suffered of any Lands lying in the County Palatine of Durham shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the said Lands were lying in the said County Palatine Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be Construed Deemed or Adjudged to make good allow confirm or countenance any the Proceedings in the late Illegal and Vn-warranted High Courts of Iustice or so called or any of them And whereas since the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty one and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty there were divers persons that adhered to both Houses of Parliament who for or in respect of such their adherence were Indicted Charged or Impeached of Treason And whereas since the said First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty one and before the said Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty divers persons who adhered to His Majesty or to the late King were for such their adherence Charged Impeached or Indicted of High Treason Be it further provided and Enacted That the said Charges Impeachments Indictments and all Exigents Outlawries Convictions and Attainders thereupon and all Letters Patents and Grants thereupon made of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments Escheated or Forfeited by reason of such Attainder and all Title to any measn Profits by reason of such Conviction Outlawry Attainder or Grant be from henceforth repealed and discharged And that all Escheats Forfeitures and Confiscations by reason of such Outlawries Conviction or Attainder Be and are hereby restored unto such Persons so Outlawed Convicted or Attainted their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively as if no such Attainder had been Provided Nevertheless And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid or confirm any Sales or Estates made by vertue or pretence of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance of Parliament