[ No. XIX. ] 8 Richard II. c. 3.-None of the Justices or Barons sha
Fee or Reward but of the King, nor shall give Counsel where the Ki
or in any Suit depending before them

[ No. XX. ] 8 Richard II. c. 4.-The Penalty if a Judge or Clerk ma
Entry, rase a Roll, or change a Verdict

[ No. XXI. ] 9 Richard II. c. 1.-A Confirmation of all Statutes no
saving of the Statute of 8 Richard II. c. 3.

...

[ No. XXII. ] 20 Richard II. c. 3.-No man shall sit upon the Bench
Justices of Assise

......

[ No. XXIII. ] 4 Henry IV. c. 23.-Judgments given shall continue
shall be reversed by Attaint or Error ....

[ No. XXIV. ] 13 Henry IV. c. 2.-A confirmation of the Statute of &
cap. 2. touching Justices of Assise and Gaol-delivery, for so long a
please the King

...

[ No. XXV. ] 11 Henry VII. c. 3.-The Justices of Assise in their Sess
the Justices of Peace in every County, upon Information for the K
have Authority to hear and determine all Offences and Contempt
Treason, Murder, or Felony) committed by any person against the
any Statute made, and not repealed

[No. XXVI. ] 32 Henry VIII. c. 21.-Trinity Term, and the Abbi
thereof

[ No. XXVII.] 33 Henry VIII. c. 24.—An Act that none shall be Ji
Assise in his own Country, &c.

[ No. XXVIII. ] 16 Charles I. c. 6.—An Act concerning the Limitat
Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term

[ No. XXIX. ] 12 & 13 William III. c. 2.-An Act for the further Limit
the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject
[ No. XXX. ] 12 George II. c. 27.-An Act for explaining and amending
made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second, in
"No Man of Law shall be Justice of Assise or Gaol Delivery in his own
try;" and another Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign o
Henry the Eighth, intituled "An Act that none shall be Justice of As
his own Country, &c."

........

[ No. XXXI. ] 24 George II. c. 48.-An Act for the Abbreviation of Mich
Term

......

[ No. XXXII. ] 1 George III. c. 23.-An Act for rendering more effectu
Provisions in an Act made in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of the
of His late Majesty King William the Third, intituled "An Act for th
ther Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Libert
the Subject," relating to the Commissions and Salaries of Judges
[No. XXXIII. ] 39 George III. c. 113.-An Act to enable such Persons a
Majesty may be pleased to appoint to the Office of Chief Justice, or of o
the Justices of either Bench, or of Chief Baron, or one of the Barons o
Exchequer, to take upon themselves the Degree of a Serjeant at Law in
tion. [12th July 1799.].....

.....

[ No. XXXIV. ] 49 George III. c. 91.-An Act to empower the Judges to
Civil Causes in their own Counties in England.-[10th June 1809.]
[No. XXXV. ] 57 George III. c. 11.-An Act to facilitate the Progress of
ness in the Court of King's Bench in Westminster Hall.-[17th March 1817.
[No. XXXVI. ] 57 George III. c. 18.-An Act to facilitate the hearing
determining of Suits in Equity in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer
Westminster.-[29th March 1817.]

......

[ No. XXXVII. ] 58 George III. c. 31.-An Act to amend an Act passed in
Fifty-third Year of His Majesty's Reign to make further Regulations for
Building and Repairing of Court Houses, and Sessions Houses in Ireland
[23d May 1818.]

[No. XXXVIII. ] 1 George IV. c. 68.-An Act for the better Administration
Justice in the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland.-[15th July 1820.]
[No. XXXIX. ] 1 George IV. c. 107.—An Act for appropriating to the Use
the Master of the Rolls for the time being the Rents of the Rolls Estate a
the Dividends of the Funds in the Court of Chancery, arising from the surpl
Rents of that Estate.-[24th July 1820.]..............

[ No. XL. ] 1 & 2 George IV. c. 16.-An Act for further facilitating the dispatch

of business in the Court of King's Bench.-[6th April 1821.] ..

23

[ No. XLI.* ] 1 & 2 George IV. c. 53.-An Act to regulate the Proceedings in

the Civil Side of the Court of King's Bench, and also in the Court of Common

Pleas, and in Pleas or Common Law Side of the Court of Exchequer in Ire-

land.-[15th June 1821.]...

..... ib.

[ No. XLI. ] 1 & 2 George IV. c. 121.-An Act to alter and abolish certain Forms

of Proceedings in the Exchequer and Audit Office, relative to Public Account-

auts, and for making further Provisions for the Purpose of facilitating and

expediting the passing of Public Accounts in Great Britain; and to render

perpetual and amend an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of His late Majesty,

for the effectual Examination of the Accounts of certain Colonial Revenues.-

[11th July 1821.] .

.....

....

ib.

[No. XLIII.] 4 George IV. c. 97.-An Act for the Regulation of the Court of

the Commissaries of Edinburgh; and for Altering and Regulating the Juris-

diction of Inferior Commissaries in Scotland.—[19th July 1823.]............................ 35

[No. XLIV. ] 5 George IV. c. 4.-An Act to amend an Act made in the First

and Second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for Regulating the

Proceedings in the Civil Side of the Court of King's Bench, and also in the

Court of Common Pleas, and in the Pleas or Common Law Side of the Court

of Exchequer in Ireland.—[5th March 1824.]

ib.

[No. XLV. ] 5 George IV. c. 30.-An Act to Prevent the Stealing of Records,

Deeds, and Papers in Ireland.—[17th May 1824.]

35 b

[ No. XLVI. ] 6 George IV. c. 120.-An Act for the better Regulating of the

Forms of Process in the Courts of Law in Scotland.-[5th July 1825.]... ib.

[No. XLVII. ] 7 George IV. c. 63.-An Act to Provide for Repairing, Improv

ing and Rebuilding Shire-Halls, County-Halls, and other Buildings for holding

the Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also Judge's Lodgings, throughout Eng-

land and Wales.-[26th May 1826] ...........

.....

.......

35 s

[ No. XLVIII. ] 9 George IV. c. 29.—An Act to Authorize additional Circuit

Courts of Justiciary to be held, and to facilitate Criminal Trials in Scotland.-

[19th June 1828.]

....

35bb

PART IV. CLASS II.

Attornies and other Officers-Prochein Amy.

....

36

[ No. I. ] 20 Henry III. St. Merton, c. 10.-Attornies allowed to make suit to

several Courts

[No. II. ] 6 Edward I. St. Gloucester, c. 8.-No Suit for Goods in the King's

Courts under forty shillings. Attorney may be made where an Appeal lieth not.

The Defendant being essoined shall bring in his Warrant ....

............ ib.

[No. III. ] 13 Edward I. st. 1. (Westminster 2.) c. 10.-At what time Writs`shall

be delivered for Suits depending before Justices in Eyre. Any Person may

make a general Attorney

..... ib.

[ No. IV. ] 13 Edward I. st. 1. (Westminster 2.) c. 15.—An Infant eloined may

sue by Prochein Amy

... 37

.....

[No. V. ] 12 Edward II. st. 1. c. 1.-Tenants in Assise of Novel Disseisin may

make atturnies

ib.

[ No. VI. ] 4 Henry IV. c. 18.-The Punishment of an Attorney found in De-

fault

... ib.

[No. VII. ] 4 Henry IV. c. 19.-No Officer of a Lord of a Franchise shall be

Attorney in the same

ib.

[No. VIII. ] 7 Henry IV. c. 13.-Impotent Persons that be outlawed may make

Attornies

.......

.......

....

.... ib.

38

[No. IX. ] 1 Henry V. c. 4.-Sheriffs' Bailiffs shall not be in the same Office in

three years after. Sheriffs' Officers shall not be Attornies...

[No. X. ] 33 Henry VI. c. 7.-How many Attornies may be in Norfolk, how

many in Suffolk, and in Norwich

....

ib.

[No. XI. ] 32 Henry VIII. c. 30.-Mispleadings, Jeofails ...

........ 39

[No. XII.] 29 Elizabeth, c. 5.-An Act for the Continuance and perfecting of

divers Statutes

.....

40

[No. XIII. ] 31 Elizabeth, c. 10.-An Act for the Continuance and perfecting

of divers Statutes

.....

10.

No. XIV. ] 3 James I. c. 7.-An Act to Reform the Multitudes and Misdemea

nors of Attornies and Solicitors at Law, and to avoid unnecessary Suits and

Charges in Law..........

......

41

| No. XV. ] 2 George II. c. 23.-An Act for the better Regulation of Attornies

and Solicitors

....

...... 42

[No. XV. a. ] 5 George II. c. 18.-An Act for the further Qualification of Justices

of the Peace

.....

51

[No. XVI. ] 6 George II. c. 27.-An Act to explain and amend an Act made in
the Second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled “An Act for the
better Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors."

[No. XVII. ] 12 George II. c. 13.-An Act for continuing the Act made in the

Eighth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, to regulate the

Price and Assize of Bread; and for continuing, explaining, and amending the

Act made in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the

better Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors ....

52

[ No. XVIII. ] 22 George II. c. 46.-An Act to continue several Laws for pre-

venting Exactions of the Occupiers of Locks and Wears upon the River Thames

westward, and for ascertaining the Rates of Water Carriage upon the said

River; and for continuing, explaining, and amending the several Laws for the

better Regulations of Attornies and Solicitors; and for regulating the Price and

Assize of Bread; and for preventing the spreading of the Distemper amongst

the horned Cattle; and also for making further Regulations with respect to

Attornies and Solicitors; and for further preventing the spreading of the Dis

temper amongst the horned Cattle; and for the more frequent Return of Writs

in the Couuties Palatine of Chester and Lancaster; and for ascertaining the

Method of levying Writs of Execution against the Inhabitants of Hundreds;

and for allowing Quakers to make Affirmation in Cases where an Oath is or

shall be required

.....

54

[ No. XIX. ] 23 George II. c. 26. An Act to continue several Laws for the

better regulating of Pilots, for the conducting of Ships and Vessels from Dover,

Deal, and Isle of Thanet, up the Rivers of Thames and Medway; and for per

mitting Rum or Spirits of the British Sugar Plantations to be landed before

the Duties of Excise are paid thereon; and to continue and amend an Act for

preventing Frauds in the Admeasurement of Coals within the City and Liberty

of Westminster, and several Parishes near thereunto; and to continue several

Laws for preventing Exactions of Occupiers of Locks and Wears upon the

River Thames westward; and for ascertaining the Rates of Water Carriage

upon the said River; and for the better regulation and Government of Seamen

in the Merchants' Service; and also to amend so much of an Act made in the

First Year of the Reign of King George the First, as relates to the better

Preservation of Salmon in the River Ribble; and to regulate Fees in Trials at

Assizes, and Nisi Prius, upon Records issuing out of the Office of Pleas of the

Court of Exchequer; and for the apprehending of Persons in any County of

Place, upon Warrants granted by Justices of the Peace in any other County

or Place; and to repeal so much of an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the

Reign of King Charles the Second, as relates to the time during which the Office

of Excise is to be kept open each day, and to appoint for how long time the

same shall be kept open upon each day for the future; and to prevent the
stealing or destroying of Turnips; and to amend an Act made in the Second

Year of His present Majesty, for better Regulation of Attornies and Solici

tors

59

[ No. XX. ] 49 George III. c. 28.-An Aet to enable the Clerks of the King's

Coroner and Attorney in the Court of King's Bench to be admitted as Attornies.

—[30th March 1809.]

60

[No. XXI.] 58 George III. c. 5.—An Act to indemnify such Persons in the

United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employ

ments, and for extending the time limited for those Purposes respectively,

until the 25th day of March 1819; and to permit such Persons in Great Britain
as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of

Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the

first day of Hilary Term 1819, and to allow Persons to make and file such
Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take
out their annual Certificates.-[17th March 1818.]...

......

60

[No. XXII. ] 59 George III. c. 11.-An Act to indemnify such Persons in the
United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employ-
ments, and for extending the time limited for certain of those Purposes respec-
tively until the twenty-fifth day of March 1820; and to permit such Persons in
Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of
Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on
or before the first day of Hilary Term 1820, and to allow Persons to make and
file such Affidavits although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected
ib.
to take out their annual Certificates.-[23d March 1819.] ...
[No. XXIII. ] 59 George III. c. 93. - An Act to continue for One Year, and
from thence until the end of the then next Session of Parliament an Act made
in the Fifty-sixth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, to make Provision for se-
curing the Profits of the Office of Clerk of the Pleas of his Majesty's Court of
61
Exchequer in Ireland.-[12th July 1819.]
[No. XXIV. ] 60 George III. and I George IV. c. 10.-An Act to indemnify
such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for
Offices and Employments, and for extending the time limited for certain of
those Purposes respectively, until the Twenty-fifth day of March 1821, and to
permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affida-
vits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to
make and file the same on or before the first day of Hilary Term 1821, and to
allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom
they served shall have neglected to take out their annual Certificates.-[28th
February 1820.] ..

......

.....

.....

ib.

[No. XXV. ] 1 George IV. c, 35.-An Act for the better securing Monies and
Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, on account of the
Suitors of the said Court, and for the Appointment of an Accountant-General
and two Masters of the said Court; and for other purposes.-[8th July
ib.
1820.] ...
[No. XXVI. ] 1 & 2 George IV. c. 48.-An Act to amend the several Acts for
74
the Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors.-[8th June 1821.] .

[ No. XXVII. ] 3 George IV. c. 16.- An Act to amend an Act made in the last
Session of Parliament, for amending the several Acts for the Regulation of
Attornies and Solicitors.-[3d April 1822.]

76

[ No. XXVII. ] 3 George IV. c. 69.-An Act to enable the Judges of the several
Courts of Record at Westminster to make Regulations respecting the Fees of
the Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of the said Courts.-[22d July 1822] .. 76 ₫
[ No. XXVIII. ] 4 George IV. c. 27.-An Act to explain and amend an Act of the
Parliament of Ireland, passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his
Majesty King George the Third, for the better ascertaining the Amount, and
securing the Payment of the Bills of Costs of Proctors, employed in carrying
on and defending Suits, and transacting Business in the High Court of Ad-
miralty, in his Majesty's Court of Prerogative, in the Court of Delegates,
and in all Ecclesiastical Courts within the Kingdom of Ireland.-[17th May
76 b
1824.]
[ No. XXIX. ] 7 & 8 George IV. c. 45.-An Act to allow, until the Twenty-
fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the inrol-
ment of certain Articles of Clerkship and Assignments thereof.-[23d June
ib.
1827.] ..

....

[ No. XXX. ] 9 George IV. c. 26.-An Act to regulate the Office of Keeper of
the general Register of Hornings and Inhibitions in Scotland.-[19th June
76 c
1828.]
[ No. XXXI. ] 9 George IV. c. 49.-An Act to amend the Laws in force relating
to the Stamp Duties on Sea Insurances, on Articles of Clerkship, on Certifi-
cates of Writers to the Signet, and of Conveyancers and others; on Licences
to Dealers in Gold and Silver Plate, and Pawnbrokers, on Drafts on Bankers,
and on Licences for Stage Coaches in Great Britain; and on Receipts in Tre-
76 d
land.-[15th July 1828.] ...

PART IV. CLASS III.

Original Writ-Process-Arrest-Imprisonment-Bail-

Appearance.

[No. I. ] 52 Henry III. c. 23. (Marlebridge.)—A Remedy against Accomptanti
Fermors shall make no waste

[No. II. ] 13 Edward I. st. 1. c. 11. (Westminster the Second.)—The Master
Remedy against their Servants and other Accomptants
[No. III. ] 13 Edward I. st. 1. c. 24. (Westminster the Second.)-A Writ
Nusance of a House, &c., levied and aliened to another. A Quod permitte
and Juris utrum for a Parson of a Church. In like cases like Writs be grant
able .....
[ No. IV. ] 13 Edward I. st. 1. c. 39. (Westminster the Second.)-The Manner to
deliver Writs to the Sheriff to be executed. The Sheriff returneth a Liberty
where none is. Returning of Issues. Resistance of Execution of Process...
[ No. V. ] 12 Edward II. st. 1. c. 5.-An Indenture shall be made between the
Sheriff and Bailiff of Liberty of every Return.
સ

.....

....

[ No. V. a. ] 1 Edward III. st. 1. c. 5.-An Averment may be made against false,
Returns of Bailiffs of Liberties......

.....

ib.

[No. VI. ] 25 Edward III. st. 5. c. 17.-Process of Exigent shall be awarded in
Debt, Detinue, and Replevin
[No. VII. ] 50 Edward III. c. 5.-None shall arrest Priests or Clerks doing Di.
vine Service

....

[No. VIII. ] 1 Richard II. c. 12.-A Prisoner by Judgment shall not be let at
large. Confession of a Debt to the King to delay another's Execution it.
[ No. IX. ] 1 Richard II. c. 15.-The Penalty for arresting of Priests during Di-
vine Service

82

[ No. X. ] 23 Henry VI. c. 9.-No Sheriff shall let to ferm his County or an
Bailiwick. The Sheriffs' and Bailiffs' Fees and Duties in several Cases... i,
[ No. XI. ] 19 Henry VII. c. 9.-Process in Actions upon the Case sued in the
King's Bench and Common Pleas

.......

......

....

85

[ No. XII.] 43 Elizabeth, c. 6.-An Act to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits in
Law in her Majesty's Courts in Westminster
ib.
[No. XIII. ] 13 Charles II. st. 2. c. 2.-An Act for Prevention of Vexations and
Oppressions by Arrests, and of Delays in Suits of Law
[No. XIV. ] 22 & 23 Charles II. c. 20.-An Act for the Relief and Release of
Poor distressed Prisoners for Debt

[ No. XV. ] 29 Charles II. c. 7.-An Act for the better Observation of the Lord's
Day, commonly called Sunday,
[ No. XVI. ] 4 William and Mary, c. 4.-An Act for taking Special Bails in the
Country upon Actions and Suits depending in the Courts of King's Bench,
Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at Westminster

[ No. XVII. ] 8 & 9 William III. c. 27.—An Act for the more effectual Relief of
Creditors in Cases of Escapes, and for preventing Abuses in Prisons and pre-
tended privileged Places.

93

[ No. XVIII. ] 11 & 12 William III. c. 9.-An Act for preventing of frivolous and
vexatious Suits in the Principality of Wales, and the Counties Palatine... 98

[ No. XIX. ] 1 Anne, st. 2. c. 6.-An Act for the better preventing of Escapes
out of the Queen's Bench and Fleet Prisons.......

[ No. XX. ] 5 Anne, c. 9.—An Act for rendering more effectual an Act passed in
the first Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for the better pre-
venting Escapes out of the Queen's Bench and Fleet Prisons”..........

101

[ No. XXI. ] 7 Anne, c. 12. (Ambassadors.)—An Act for preserving the Privi-
leges of Ambassadors and other public Ministers of foreign Princes and
States

[ No. XXII. ] George I. c. 21.-An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in
the public Revenues of Excise, Customs, Stamp-duties, Post-office, and House-
money..................................
103