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Composition by Debtors (Repeal) Act 1697
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III.Agreements, Releases, and Discharges made; or procured upon false Oath, &c. void
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons [X1that] heretofore have been or shal before the said Twenty fourth Day of June be discharged by vertue of this Act shal be deemed or adjudged to be discharged thereby who to procure any Agreement Compositions Releases or Discharges whatsoever from any of [X2his] or their Creditor or Creditors have before any one of the Judges of either Bench Barons of the Exchequer or Master in Chancery Ordinary or Extraordinary willingly and corruptly made or before the said Twenty fourth Day of June shal make any false Oath to the defrauding of his or their Creditor or Creditors but that all and every such Agreement Releases and Discharges upon any false Oath obtained and being thereof convicted upon any Indictment or Information shal be void and of none Effect Any Thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.
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