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Offenders forfeit treble damages to parties grieved.
How said forfeitures recovered.
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V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any sheriffe, or other person mentioned in this act, or any of them, at any time or times from and after forty dayes next ensuing the last day of this present Parliament, shall doe or commit any act or acts contrary to the oath aforesaid, or contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, that then every such person so offending, shall forfeit and lose for every such offence, to the party or parties grieved, his or their treble damages; all which severall forfeitures before mentioned, shall or may by the authority of this present act be recovered, had, and levied by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of the Kings Majesties courts of record; in which actions, suits, plaints or informations, no wager of law, essoyne, or protection shall be allowed. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]
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