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Lace Act 1697
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X.Persons entering a Claim to Goods seized, to give Security for Costs,
otherwise Goods adjudged forfeited.
And whereas the Person or Persons who make Seizure of the said Goods may be hindred and delayed in the Prosecution thereof by vexatious Claims being entred thereto for prevention whereof Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That before any Person or Persons shall be [X1permitted] to enter a claime to any of the said Goods hee shall be obliged to give good and sufficient Security by Recognizance to be entred into before one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in the Penalty of Twenty Pounds with Condition to pay to the Officer or Person prosecuting such Seizure his full Costs of Suit in case upon a Tryal or other Determination in Law a Verdict shall passe or Judgement shall be entred for the Plaintiffe and in case Default shall be made in giving such Security within the time limitted by the Rules of the Court for entring Claimes then the said Goods shall be adjudged forfeited and Judgement entred accordingly.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: admitted O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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