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Excise (No. 3) Act 1660
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XXVII.Persons sued may plead the General Issue.
Double Costs.
Provided alwayes and bee it Enacted That if any person or persons shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act he or they shall and may plead the generall issue and give this Act in evidence for his defence, and if upon the tryall a Verdict shall passe for the Defendant or Defendants; or the Plaintiffe or Plaintiffes be non suited then such Defendent or Defendents shall have double Costs to him or them awarded against such Plaintiffe or Plaintiffes.
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