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1226 ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO QUARTO Cap. 84.
Verdicts to be filed and to be final.
Record by the Clerk of the Peace of the County wherein the Lands so to
be appropriated shall situate, and shall be final and conclusive to all
Intents and Purposes whatsoever against all and every the said Owners
or Proprietors, and Occupiers and Tenants respectively, their respective
Heirs, Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, and all and
every other Person or Persons whomsoever.
Feoffees may issue Warrants to the Sheriff to return Juries, &c.
VII. And for summoning and returning such Juries, be it further
enacted, That such Feoffee or Feoffees may issue their Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriff of the County wherein such Lands shall be situate,
requiring him to impannel, summon, and return, an indifferent Jury or
indifferent Juries, each consisting of Twenty-four Persons qualified to
serve upon Juries, to appear before the said Feoffee or Feoffees, at such
Time and Place as in such Warrant or Warrants shall be appointed; and
the said Sheriff, or his Deputy or Deputies, is and are hereby required to
impannel, summon, and return, such Number of Persons accordingly,
and out of the Persons so summoned, impannelled, and returned, or out
of such of them as shall appear upon such Summons, the said Feoffee
or Feoffees shall, and they are hereby empowered and required to draw
by Ballot, and to swear, or cause to be sworn, Twelve Men upon each
such Jury; and in Default of a sufficient Number of Jurymen so returned,
the said Sheriff or his Deputy or Deputies, shall take such other honest
and indifferent Men of the Bye-standers, or that can speedily be procured
to attend that Service, to make up the Number of Twelve upon each
such Jury; and all Persons concerned shall have their lawful Challenges
against any of the said Jurymen when they come to be sworn; and the
said Feoffee or Feoffees shall have Power, from Time to Time, to impose
and levy, by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of ever Offender,
by Warrant under his or their Hands or Seals, a Fine or Fines
upon such Sheriff, or his Deputy or Deputies, making Default in the
Premises, and on any of the Persons who shall be summoned and returned
on such Jury or Juries, and who shall not appear, or appearing
shall refuse to be sworn, or being sworn, shall refuse to give, or shall not
give a Verdict, or shall in any other Manner wilfully neglect his or
their Duty therein, and also on any Persons who, being summoned and
required to give Evidence before the said Jury or Juries, shall refuse or
neglect to appear, or appearing shall refuse to be sworn or to give
Evidence, so that no such Fine be more than Ten Pounds, nor less than
Twenty Shillings, on any One Person for One Offence.
By whom Expences of Juries are to be borne.
VIII. And be it further enacted, That in case any such Jury shall
give in and deliver a Verdict for more Money as the Amount of such
Value or Increase in Value as aforesaid, than what shall have been paid
into the Bank of England, for the Use of the said Owners or Proprietors,
or shall give in and deliver a Verdict for more Money as the Values of
the Right and Interest of such Tithe Owners, Occupiers, or Tenants
respectively, in the said Ground and Premises, than what shall have been
offered for the Purchase thereof, the Costs and Expences of summoning
and maintaining the Jury and Witnesses shall in each Case in which such
greater Sum of Money shall be given in by such Jury, be borne and paid
by the said Feofee or Feofees; but if such Jury shall in either or both
of the said Cases give in and deliver a Verdict or Verdicts respectively,
for no more or for less Money than the Money which shall have been respectively
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sheet extracted from the penitentiary contract act 34 g.3.c.84 § 6 as referred to in a letter from mr bentham to mr secretary long dated 31st january 1800 |
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annotated by bentham; see note 10 to letter 1494, vol. 6, of which this is the original annotated copy of the act |
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