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Stat. 3.
Anno vicesimo octavo Edwardi I.
A.D. 1300.

CAP. IX.
What Sort of People shall be returned upon every Jury.

[1]THE King willeth and commandeth, That no Sheriff nor Bailiff shall impanel in Inquests nor in Juries over many Persons, nor otherwise than it is ordained by Statute; (2) and that they shall put in those Inquests and Juries such as be next Neighbours, most sufficient, and least suspicious. (3) And he that otherwise doth, and is attainted thereupon, shall pay unto the Plaintiff his Damages double, and shall be grievously amerced unto the King.[2]

See 13 Ed. 1. stat. 1. c. 38.  21 Ed. 1. stat. 1.  34 Ed. 3. c. 4.  42 Ed. 3. c. 11.  1 R. 3. c. 4.  11 H. 7. c. 21.  4 H. 8. c. 3.  5 H. 8. c. 5.  21 H. 8. c. 13.  35 H. 8. c. 6.  27 Eliz. c. 6 & 7.  4 and 5 W. and M. c. 24.  7 and 8 W. 3. c. 32.  3 G. 2. c. 25.  4 Geo. 2. c. 7.  6 Geo. 2. c. 37.  24 Geo. 2. c. 18. and 29 Geo. 2. c. 19. which Statutes provide farther the Qualifications, &c. of Jurors.

  1. ↑ Co. Lit. 158. a.
  2. ↑ Regist. 178, 179, 180.

CAP. X.
The Remedy against Conspirators, false Informers, and Embracers of Juries.

[1]IN Right of Conspirators, false Informers, and evil Procurers of Dozens, Assises, Inquests and Juries, the King hath provided Remedy for the Plaintiffs by a Writ out of the Chancery. (2) And notwithstanding, he willeth that his Justices of the one Bench and of the other, and Justices assigned to take Assises, when they come into the Country to do their Office, shall, upon every Plaint made unto them, award Inquests thereupon without Writ, and shall do Right unto the Plaintiffs without Delay.[2]

CAP. XI.
Nothing shall be taken to maintain any Matter in Suit.

[3]AND further, because the King hath heretofore ordained by Statute, that none of his Ministers shall take no Plea for Maintenance, by which Statute other Officers were not bounden before this Time; (2) The King will, that no Officer nor any other (for to have Part of the Thing in Plea) shall not take upon him the Business that is in suit; (3) nor none upon any such Covenant shall give up his Right to another; [4](4) and if any do, and he be attainted thereof, the Taker shall forfeit unto the King so much of his Lands and Goods as doth amount to the Value of the Part that he hath purchased for such Maintenance. (5) And for this Atteindre, whosoever will, shall be received to sue for the King before the Justices, before whom the Plea hangeth, and the Judgment shall be given by them. (6) But it may not be understood hereby, that any Person shall be prohibit to have Counsel of Pleaders, or of learned Men in the Law for his Fee, or of his Parents and next Friends.[5]

Enforced by 33 Ed. 1. stat. 3.  1 Ed. 3. stat. 2. c. 14.  4 Ed. 3 c. 11.  20 Ed. 3 c. 4.  1 R. 2. c. 4. and 32 H. 8. c. 9. against buying of Titles, &c.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 561.; Kel. 81.
  2. ↑ Regist. 188.; Rast. 123, &c.
  3. ↑ 3 Ed. 1. c. 25.[n 1]; 13 Ed. 1. stat. 1. c. 49.; 13 H. 4. f. 17.; Fitz. Champerty, 3, 4, 6, 12, 14, 15.; 2 Inst. 118.
  4. ↑ 21 Ed. 3. f. 52.; Bro. Champerty, 11.
  5. ↑ Rast. 119, 427, &c.
  1. ↑ Add c. 28 & 33.

CAP. XII.
What Distress shall be taken for the King's Debt, and how it shall be used.

[1]FROM henceforth the King will, that such Distresses as are to be taken tor his Debts shall not be made upon Beasts of the Plough, so long as a Man may find any other, upon the same Pain that is elsewhere ordained by Statute, &c. (2) And he will not that over-great Distresses shall be taken for his
  1. ↑ 4 H. 7. f. 8.; 2 Inst. 565.; 51 H. 3. stat. 4.; 52 H. 3. c. 4.
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