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Stamps Act 1697
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Officer to date Writ of Arrest; and enter the same,; Officer neglecting, Penalty £10.
And for preventing Abuses co[m]mitted by arresting Persons without any Writt or legall Process to justifie the same by Means whereof the Duty hereby given for ever to the Crown upon such Process will be lost. be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety eight every Officer or Clerk belonging or which shall hereafter belong to the Court of Kings Bench Co[m]mon Pleas or Exchequer who shall sign any Writt or Process before Judgment to arrest any Person or Persons thereupon shall at the signing thereof set down upon such Writt or Process the Day and Year of [X1his ] signing the same which shall be entred upon the Remembrance or in the Book where the Abstract of such Writt or Process shall be entred: upon Pain to forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds for every Offence or Neglect of such Officer or Clerk aforesaid to be recovered by any Person who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record of His Majesty His Heires or Succes srs by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Wager of Law Protection or Essoign or more than One Imparlance shall be allowed.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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