Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663

XI. In Actlions for executing Act,

General Issue may be pleaded.; Double Costs.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Suite shall bee coo[m]menced against any person for any thing done, in pursuance of this present Act, That in every such case, the Action shall bee layd in the said respective Countyes, where the Cause doth arise and not elsewhere, and the Defendant in such Actions so to bee brought, may plead the generall Issue, and give this Act and the speciall matter in evidence, at any Tryall to bee had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursueance, and by Authority of the said Act, And if it shall so appeare to bee done, and that such Action shalbee brought in any other County, That then the Jury shall finde for the Defendant, and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiffe shall bee nonsuited or discontinue his Action after the Defendant shall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall bee given against the Plaintiffe, the said Defendant shall have and recover his double Costs, and have the like remedy for the same, as any Defendant hath in any other case by Law