Records of Fires Burnt, etc. Act 1679

III. Such Fines to be of Force as if the Writ of Covenant, &c. had remained upon Record;

and not hereafter be avoided or reversed for lack of any Writ of Covenant, &c.; Custos Brevium and Chirographer to certify Subscription of Chief Justice, &c.

And it is hereby further enacted That every such Fine and Fines the Records whereof being soe new ingrost as aforesaid shall be of the same force and effect as if the Writt of Covenant Writt of Dedimus Potestatem where such Fine was taken by Commission with the Concord, Foote and Note of the said Fine or Fines had still remained upon Record unconsumed or not lost and that noe such Fine shall at any time hereafter be avoided or reversed for lacke of any Writt of Covenant Writt of Dedimus Potestatem, Concord or other Record consumed or lost by the said Fire, and that upon any Writt or Writts of Error hereafter at any time to be brought for the reversing of any such Fine the Custos Brevium and Chirographer shall together with the Note and Foote of such Fine certifie the said Subscription of the said Cheife Justice or other Justice or Justices of the said Court to the end it may appeare to the Judges before whome such Writt of Error shall depend that the same Fine was new ingrossed by vertue of this Act.