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 for a less time than a month, that he shall forfeit nothing. 3. If any person prohibited by the statute offends in non bene exeq' &c. they may punish him according to the stat. within the month. 4. Those who they may commit to prison by the stat. ought to be commit. presently. 5. The fines which they set, according to the statute, belong to the King. 6. They cannot impose a fine, or imprisonment without a record of it. 7. The cause for which they impose fine and imprisonment ought to be certain, for it is traversable: for although they have letters patent, and an act of Parliament, yet because the party grieved has no other remedy, neither by writ of error, or otherwise, and they are not made Judges, nor a court given them, but have an authority only to do it, the cause of their commitment is traversable in an action of false imprisonment brought against them; as upon the statute of bankrupts, their warrant is under the great seal, and by act of Parliament; yet because the party grieved has no other remedy, if the commissioners do not pursue the act and their commission, he shall traverse, that he was not a bankrupt, although the commissioners affirm him to be one; as this term it was resolved in this court, in trespass between Cuttə and Delabarre, where the issue was, whether Will. Cheyney was a bankrupt or not, who was found by the commissioners to be a bankrupt; a fortiori in the case at bar, the cause of the imprisonment is traversable; for otherwise the party grieved may be perpetually, without just cause, imprisoned by them; but the record of a force made by a Justice of Peace is not traversable,