Deer Stealers Act 1691

V. No Certiorari except Offender give Security £50. to pay Prosecutor full Costs, &c.

Double Prosecutions not allowed.

And whereas divers Offenders duely convicted do comonly procure Writs of Certiorari to remove such Convictions into Superiour Courts at Westminster in hopes thereby to discourage and weary out such persons injured by great delays expences and incertainties Be it therefore enacted That no Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction made or other Proceeding of for or concerning any matter or thing in this Act unlesse the Party or Parties against whom such Conviction shall be made shall before the allowance of such Certiorari become bounden to the person or persons prosecuting in the Sum of Fifty pounds with such sufficient Sureties as the Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom such Offender was convicted shall think fitt with condition to pay unto the said Prosecutors within one Month after such Conviction confirmed or a Procedendo granted their full Costs and Damages to be ascertained upon their Oaths and that in default thereof it shall be lawfull for the said Justice and Justices and others to proceed to the due execution of such Conviction in such manner as if no Certiorari had been awarded. Provided that where any Offender shall be punished by force of this Act that he shall not be prosecuted nor incur the penalty of any other Law or Statute for the same Offence.