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 ai.XII. Pt.I.Sec.V.] Extents. 295 of the revenues of any county or counties answerable in the receipt of the Exchequer, or in the Court of Wards and Liveries (a), or the duchy of Lancaster, Clerk of the Hamper, now hath, or at any time hereafter shall have, within the time whilst he or they or any of them shall remain accountable, shall for the payment and satisfaction unto the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors, of his or their arrearages, at any time hereafter to be lawfully, according to the laws of this realm, adjudged and determined upon his or their account (all his due and reasonable petitions being allowed) be liable to the payment thereof, and be put and had in execution for the pay- ment of such arrearages or debts to be so adjudged and determined upon, any such Treasurer, Receiver, Teller, Cus- tomer, Collector, Farmer, Officer or Accountant, as is before named, in like and in as large and henejicial manner^ to all intents and purposes, as if the same Treasurer, Receiver, Teller, Customer, Farmer or Collector, upon whom any such arrearages or debts shall be so adjudged or determined, had the day he became first officer or accountant stood hound hy is^riting obligatory, having the effect of a statute of the staple, to her Ma- jesty, her heirs or successors, for the true answering and pay- ment of the same arrearages or debts." With respect therefore to debts due from the officers enumerated in tliis statute, they bind the land (if incurred at any time during^ the continuance of the office {b) ) from the time of entering into the office (c), since the writing obligatory having the effect of a statute staple, mentioned in the statute^ binds the land from the time it is entered into. The enumeration of officers and receivers, &c. in the statute, is, it will be observed, very general. The words " treasurer or receiver of any sums of money imprest or otherwise," are par- ticularly so, but they do not mean any person who gets the King's money into his hands. Being introduced in the enu- meration of certain known public officers, they must be confined to that class of persons ; and therefore where it appeared that the party had received the King's money from the paymaster- general of the forces, and not in any specific public character of (a) Court of Wards and Liveries (c) 1 Wiglitw. 34, 2" Leon. 90» West, taken away, 12 Car. 1. c. 2'4. s. 1. 128, 9. (6) 10 Rep.W. West. 128. his