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[ No. LXXIII. ] 2 Heury VI. c. 16.-Persons in the Reversion may sue for their
Right to Estates, notwithstanding any Defaults committed by the former Pos-

[No. LXXIV. ] 11 Henry VI. c. 2.-The Penalty where a Sheriff is named a

sessors

Disseisor in an Assise...

ib.

[ No. LXXIV. a. ] 11 Henry VI. c. 3.-An Assise, &c. maintainable against the

Pernor of the Profits..

... ib.

[ No. LXXV. ] 11 Henry VI. c. 5.-The Remedy where a Tenant granteth over

his Estate, taketh the Profits, and committeth Waste

ib.

[No. LXXVI. ] 1 Henry VII. c. 1.-A Formedon maintainable against the Pernor

of the Profits of Lands enfeoffed to Use. The Tenant in the same Action shall

have Aid Prayer, Voucher, and other Advantages. The Tenant shall have his

Age and other Advantages. Recoveries against the Pernors of the Profits,

and their Feoffees

ib.

[No. LXXVII. ] 21 Henry VIII. c. 3.-Plaintiffs in Assise may abridge their

Plaints

.....

ib.

[ No. LXXVIII. ] 21 Henry VIII. c. 15.-Fermors shall enjoy their Leases

against Recoveries by feigned Titles, &c.

[ No. LXXIX. ] 32 Henry VIII. c. 32.-Joint Tenants for Term of Life or

Years

[ No. LXXX. ] 31 Elizabeth, c. 3.-An Act for the avoiding of privy and secret

Outlawries of the Queen's Subjects

ib.

PART IV. CLASS XIX.

Distress, Replevin, and Matters relating to Landlord and Tenant.

[No. I. 51 Henry III. st. 4. (De Districtione Scaccarii.)-What Distress shall

be taken for the King's Debts, and how it shall be used

150

[ No. II. ] Statute of Marlebridge, 52 Henry III. (A.) c. 1.—The Penalty of tak-

ing a Distress wrongfully

(B.) C. 2.-None but Suitors shall be distrained to come to a Court.

(C.) C. 3.-A Lord shall not pay a Fine for distraining his Tenant

(D.) C. 4.-A Distress shall not be driven out of the County. And it shall be

reasonable....

(E.) C. 15.—In what Places Distresses shall not be taken

(F.) C. 21.-Who may take Replevins of Distresses

151

[No. III. ] 3 Edward I. (Westminster first) c. 16.—None shall distrain out of his

Fee, nor drive the Distress out of the County

[No. IV. ] 3 Edward I. c. 17.—The Remedy if the Distress be impounded in a

Castle, or Fortress.

........ 152

ib.

[No. V. ] 6 Edward I. (Gloucester) c. 5.-Several Tenants against whom an Ac-

tion of Waste is maintainable

.....

.........

153

[No. VI. ] 13 Edward I. (Westminster second) c.2.-A Recordare to remove a

Plaint. Pledges to prosecute a Suit. Second Deliverance

ib.

[ No. VII. ] 25 Edward III. st. 5. c. 17.-Process of Exigent shall be awarded in

Debt. Detinue, and Replevin.

.......

.........

.... 154

[ No. VIII. ] 7 Henry VIII. c. 4.-An Act concerning Avowries for Rents and

Services

....

ib.

[ No. IX. ] 21 Henry VIII. c. 19.—Avowries shall be made by the Lord upon the

Land, without naming his Tenant

155

[No. X. ] 32 Henry VIII. c. 28.-Lessees to enjoy the Farm against the Tenants

in Tail

....

156

[No. XI.) 32 Henry VIII. c. 34.-Concerning Grantees of Reversions to take

Advantage of the Conditions to be performed by the Lessees..

ib.

[No. XII. ] 32 Henry VIII. c. 37.-For Recovery of Arrearages of Rents by Ex-

ecutors of Tenants in Fee Simple

......

ib.

[No. XIII. ] 1 & 2 Philip and Mary, c. 12.-An Act for the impounding of Dis-

tresses

158

[No. XIV. ] 1 Elizabeth, c. 19.-An Act giving Authority to the Queen's Ma-

jesty, upon the Avoidance of any Archbishopric or Bishopric, to take into her

hands certain of the Temporal Possessions thereof, recompensing the same with

Parsonages impropriate and Tenths

[No. XV. ] 13 Elizabeth, c. 20.-An Act touching Leases of Benefices, and other

Ecclesiastical Livings with Cure

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

[ No. XVI. ] 18 Elizabeth, c. 6.—An Act for Maintenance of the Colleges in the

Universities, and of Winchester and Eaton ...

[No. XVII. ] 17 Charles II. c. 7.-An Act for a more speedy and effectual Pro-

ceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents

...... ib.

[ No. XVIII. ] 19 Charles II. c. 5.-An Act extending a former Act concerning

Replevins and Avowries, to the Principality of Wales, and the Counties Pala-

tine...

.... 160

[ No. XIX. ] 19 Charles II. c. 16.-An Act for Redress of Inconveniences by

Want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting them-

selves, upon whose Lives Estates do depend ....

.....

... 161

[No. XX. ] 2 William and Mary, sess. 1. c. 5.-An Act for enabling the Sale of

Goods distrained for Rent, in case the Rent be not paid in a reasonable

Time

... ib.

[ No. XXI. ] 8 Anne, c. 14.-An Act for the better security of Rents, and to pre-

vent Frauds committed by Tenants

... 163

[No. XXII.] 4 George II. c. 28.-An Act for the more effectual preventing

Frauds committed by Tenants, and for the more easy Recovery of Rents, and

Renewal of Leases

[ No. XXIII. ] 11 George II. c. 19.-An Act for the more effectual securing the

Payment of Rents, and preventing Frauds by Tenants

... 169

[No. XXIV. ] 57 George III. c. 52.-An Act to alter an Act passed in the

Eleventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for the more effectual

securing the Payment of Rents, and preventing Frauds by Tenants.— [27th June

1817.]...

[No. XXV. ] 57 George III. c. 93.-An Act to regulate the Costs of Distresses

levied for Payment of Small Rents.-[10th July 1817.]

..... 183

[No. XXVI. ] 6 George IV. c. 43.—An Act to amend and render more effectual

an Act made in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the First, for im-

pounding of Distresses in Ireland.—[10th June 1825.]

[No. XXVII. ] 7 George IV. c. 42.-An Act to amend the Laws in force in Ire-

land for preventing the vexatious impounding of Cattle for trespass or damage

feasant. [26th May 1826.]

[No. XXVIII. ] 7 & 8 George IV. c. 17.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an

Act made in the Fifty-seventh Year of King George the Third, for regulating

the Costs of certain Distresses.-[28th May 1827.]

185 g

[No. XXIX. ] 7 & 8 George IV. c. 69.-An Act to provide for the Relief of

Persons aggrieved by unlawful or excessive Distresses in Ireland.-[2d July

Actions against Justices of Peace and other Officers.

[No. I. ] 7 James I. c. 5.-An Act for Ease in pleading troublesome and conten-

tions Suits prosecuted against Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Constables, and

certain other his Majesty's Officers, for the lawful Execution of their Office .. 186

[No. II. ] 21 James I. c. 12.-An Act to enlarge and make perpetual the Act

made for Ease in pleading against troublesome and contentious Suits prosecuted

against Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Constables, and certain other his Ma-

jesty's Officers, for the lawful Execution of their Office, made in the Seventh

Year of his Majesty's most happy Reign

.......

..... 187

........ 188

[No. III. ] 24 George II. c. 44.-An Act for the rendering Justices of the Peace

more safe in the Execution of their Office; and for indemnifying Constables

and others acting in obedience to their Warrants

[No. IV. ] 23 George III. c. 70.—An Act for the more effectual preventing the

illegal Importation of Foreign Spirits, and for putting a stop to the private Dis

tillation of British-made Spirituous Liquors;

* and for preventing

vexatious Actions against Officers of Excise acting in pursuance of the Autho-

rity given by Excise Statutes

....

191

[No. V. ] 24 George III. sess. 2 c. 47.-An Act for the more effectual Prevention

of Smuggling in this Kingdom

193

[ No. VI. ] 42 George III. c. 85.—An Act for the trying and punishing in Great

Britain Persons holding public Employments, for Offences committed abroad;

and for extending the Provisions of an Act, passed in the Twenty-first Year of

the Reign of King James, made for the Ease of Justices and others in pleading

in Suits brought against them, to all Persons, either in or out of this Kingdom,

authorized to commit to safe custody.—[22d June 1802.] .....

ib.

[ No. VII. ] 43 George III. c. 141.-An Act to render Justices of the Peace more

safe in the Execution of their Duty.-[11th August 1803.]

197

PART IV. CLASS XXI.

Penal Actions and Informations.

[No. I.] 4 Henry VII. c. 20.-Actions popular, prosecuted by Collusion, shall be

no Bar to those which be pursued with good Faith.

199

[ No. II. ] 18 Elizabeth, c. 5.-An Act to redress Disorders in common In-
formers

..........

200

203

[No. III. ] 31 Elizabeth, c. 5.—An Act concerning Informers

[No. IV. ] 21 James I. c. 4.-An Act for the Ease of the Subject, concerning In-

formations upon Penal Statutes

......

205

[ No. V. ] 3 George IV. c. 46.-An Act for the more speedy Return and Levy-

ing of Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, and Recognizances estreated.-

[24th June 1822.]

...... 207

[ No. VI. ] 4 George 4. c. 37.-An Act to amend an Act for the more speedy Re-

turn and Levying of Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, and Recognizances

estreated. [27th June 1823.] ...

212

PART IV. CLASS XXII.

Actions against the Hundred.

[ No. 1. ] 7 & 8 George IV. c. 31.-An Act for consolidating and amending the

Laws in England, relative to Remedies against the Hundred.-[21st June

1827.]

216

PART IV. CLASS XXIII.

King's Debts.

[No. I.] 9 Henry III. (Magna Charta) c. 8.-How Sureties shall be charged to

[ No. II. ] 51 Henry III. st. 4.—What Distress shall be taken for the King's Debts,

and how it shall be used

.......

225

[No. III. ] Statutum De Scaccario, 15 Henry III. st. 5.-When the King's

Fermors, Sheriffs, and Bailiffs, shall make their Accompts and Payments.

Who shall be Escheators in several Shires

............

ib.

[No. VI. ] 3 Edward I. (Westminster) c. 19.-A Sheriff having received the

King's Debt, shall discharge the Debtor

........

.... 227

[ No. VII. ] 10 Edward I. (the Statute of Rutland.)-Touching the Recovery of

[ No. VIII. ] 28 Edward I. st. 3. c. 12.-What Distress shall be taken for the

King's Debt, and how it shall be used

[ No. IX. ] 1 Richard II. c. 5.--The Punishment of the Clerk of the Exchequer

making Process for the Debt paid

ib.

[No. X. ] 33 Henry VIII. c. 39.-The Erection of the Court of Surveyors of the

King's Lands, the names of the Officers there, and their Authority........ ib.

[ No. XI. ] 2 & 3 Edward VI. c. 4.-An Act for the Sheriffs of England to have

certain Allowances upon their Accompts

241

[No. XII. ] 7 Edward VI. c. 1.-An Act for the true Answering of the King's

Majesty's Revenues

ib.

[ No. XIII. ] 13 Elizabeth, c. 4.-An Act to make the lands, Tenements, Goods

and Chattels of Tellers, Receivers, &c. liable to the Payment of their Debts 246

[No. XIV. ] 27 Elizabeth, c. 3.-Au Act for the Explanation of an Act made in

the Thirteenth Year of the Queen's Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act to make

the Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels of Tellers, Receivers, &c. liable to

the Payment of their Debts

[No. XV. ] 7 James I. c. 15.-An Act concerning some Manner of Assignment

of Debts to his Majesty

252

[No. XVI. ] 22 & 23 Charles II. c. 22.-An Act for the better and more certain

Recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to his Majesty

.... 253

[ No. XVII. ] 25 George III. c. 35.-An Act for the more easy and effectual Sale

of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of Crown Debtors, or of their Sure-

[ No. XVIII. ] 25 George III. c. 52.—An Act for better examining and auditing

the Public Accounts of this Kingdom ....

...... 258

[No. XIX. ] 39 George III. c. 83.-An Act for transferring to the Commissioners

for auditing the Public Accounts, the Duties now performed in the Offices of

the Auditors of the Land Revenue; and for directing the mode of attesting the

Accounts of the Paymaster-General of his Majesty's Forces.-[12th July

1799.]

[No. XX. ] 39 & 40 George III. c. 54.-An Act for more effectually charging

Public Accountants with the Payment of Interest; for allowing interest to them

in certain cases; and for compelling the Payment of Balances due from them.

-[20th June 1800.] ....

ib.

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