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Appeal from justices to quarter sessions.
Defects of form cured upon appeal.
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82. . . . in case any officer who shall exhibit any information, or any person or persons against whom any information shall have been exhibited, or who shall appear and claim any goods, commodities, or chattels alleged to be forfeited in any information exhibited before any justice or justices of the peace as aforesaid, shall feel aggrieved by the judgment given thereon by such justices, it shall be lawful for such officer, or such person or persons, upon giving such notice as herein-after mentioned, to appeal therefrom to the justices assembled at the next general quarter sessions of the peace (or if there be not one week between the time of giving such notice and the next general quarter sessions, then to the general quarter sessions of the peace next after the expiration of one week,) to be holden in and for the county, shire, division, city, town, or place in which such judgment so appealed against shall have been given; and it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace at such general quarter sessions, upon being served with such notice, and they are hereby respectively authorized and required, at such general quarter sessions, to hear, adjudge, and finally determine such appeal; and if upon any such appeal to the justices of the peace at quarter sessions, any defect in form shall be found in the information, or in any part of the proceedings thereon or relating thereto, or in the record thereof, every such defect or form shall thereupon be rectified and amended by order of such justices or the major part of them assembled at such general quarter sessions, before whom respectively such appeal shall be brought; anything in this Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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