Excise Act 1663

IV. Commissioners, Sub-commissioners, and Farmers giving false or corrupt Judgment; Penalty.

Persons unjuftly complaining of the Judgment of the Commissioners; Penalty.

And that if any Commissioner or Sub Commissioner Commissioners or Sub Commissioners who by colour or vertue of any Letters Patents are now both Commissioners or Sub Commissioners for regulating the said Revenue and likewise Farmers of the said Revenue shall give any false and corrupt Judgement in advancement of the benefit of his or their said Farme to the Brewers damage contrary to Law, he or they shall forfeite for every such Judgement soe falsely and corruptly given double Costs to the partie soe injured by the said corrupt and false Judgement, And in case any person shall unjustly complaine of X1 any Judgement of the Commissioners or Sub Commissioners as aforesaid, and soe shall be found upon his Appeale the said partie shall forfeite double Costs to the said Commissioners for such unjust vexations to be recovered by Information Bill or Plaint in any Court of Record.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]