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III.Persons taken upon Capias Utlagatum in Common Bail Cases, discharged by an Attorney's Engagement to appear.
In Special Bail Cases, by giving Bond with Sureties to appear.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any person or persons Outlawed or hereafter to be Outlawed in the said Court (other then for Treason and Felony) shall from and after the said First day of Easter Terme be taken and arrested upon any Capias Utlagatum out of the said Court it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Sheriff or Sheriffs who hath or shall have taken and arrested such person and persons (in all cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court) to take an Attorneys engagement under his Hand to appear for the said Defendant or Defendants and to reverse the said Outlaries and thereupon to discharge the said Defendant and Defendants from such Arrests And in those cases where Special Bail is required by the said Court the said Sheriff [X1or] Sheriffs shall and may take Security of the said Defendant or Defendants by Bond with one or more sufficient Surety or Sureties in the penalty of double the sum for which Special Bail is required and no more for his her or their Appearance by Attorney in the said Court att the returne of the said Writt and to do and performe such things as shall be required by the said Court and after such Bond taken to discharge the said Defendant and Defendants from the said Arrests.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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