Disbanding the Army Act 1698

VII. Disbanded Officers exercising Authority, and Persons aiding the keeping together of disbanded Regiments,; Premunire, and disabled to sue.

And be it further enacted That all and every Commission Officer and Officers who shall exercize any Power or Authority over the Souldiers in their respective Regiments Troops or Companies after such Officer or Officers shall be disbanded and every Person or Persons that shall wittingly and willingly advise frame contrive countersigne or putt in Execution any Proclamation Commission Act Order or Command whatsoever for continueing together any of the said Regiments Troops or Companies or parts of Regiments Troops or Companies after they shall be disbanded as aforesaid he or they soe offending shall incurr and sustaine the Pains Penalties and Forfeitures limitted ordained and provided in and by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the Sixteenth Yeare of King Richard the Second and being thereof lawfully convicted shall from thenceforth be disabled during his Life to sue or implead any Person in any Action reall or personall in his owne Right or to make any Guift Grant Conveyance or other Disposition of any his Lands Tenements Goods or Chattells which he hath to his owne Use either by Act executed in his life time or by his last Will or otherwise or to take any Guift Conveyance or Legacy to his own use And none of the said Souldiers or Non commissioned Officers disbanded as aforesaid shall after the space of Two Daies after such disbanding continue together above Ten in a Company.