Habeas Corpus Act 1640

IV. Great Officers and others offending;

First Offence, Penalty £500.; Second Offence, Penalty £1000.; Third Offence, Disabled.

And be it further provided and Enacted. That if any Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seale of England Lord Treasurer Keeper of the Kings Privy Seale President of the Councell Bishop Temporall Lord Privy Councellour Judge or Justice whatsoever shall offend or doe any thing contrary to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law [X1 Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds of lawfull Money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Judgement thereupon to be recorded in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoine Protection Wager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledge Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Judgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Judgement or Recovery offend againe in the same then he or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of one thousand pounds of lawfull Money of England unto any party greived his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Judgement thereupon to be recorded in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoine Protection Wager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledge Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more than one Imparlance And if any Person against whom any such second Judgement or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Judgement or Recovery offend againe in the same kind] and shall be thereof duly convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawfull way or meanes that such Person soe convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso fActo to beare his and theire said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disable to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other disposition of any his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveyance or Legacy to his owne use.

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.