High Peak Mining Customs and Mineral Courts Act 1851

XLIIBarmaster not to be liable.

No Barmaster or Deputy Barmaster, and no Person acting at the Request and in aid of any Barmaster or Deputy Barmaster, shall be liable to any Action for anything done or authorized by such Bar-master or Deputy Barmaster in obedience or necessary for Obedience to any Writ, Precept, Warrant, or Process signed by the Steward and sealed with the said Seal, although the same be void or irregular or an Excess of Jurisdiction, nor shall any Act done by any such Barmaster, Deputy Barmaster, or other Person, while acting under any such Writ, Precept, Warrant, or Process, make him a Trespasser ab initio, though it be not in obedience or not necessary for Obedience to such Writ, Precept, Warrant, or Process, but the Party committing such last-mentioned Act shall be liable, to an Action for the same if it be illegal.