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 A. D. 1623. Anno vicefimo prlmo Jacobi I. C. 16. jci any Perfon or Perfons now hatli or have any Title, or Caufe to have or purfue any fuch Writ, fliall be fued and taken within twenty Years next after the End of this prefent Selfion of Parliament: And after ^salk 421 the faid twenty Years expired, no fuch Perfon or Perfons, or any of their Heirs, fhall have cr maintain 422, 413. ' any fuch Writ, of or for any of the faid Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments ; (2) and that ^^^ ^_ ^^^ ail Writs oi Formedon in DeJ'cender^ Formedon in Rcmai?ider, znA Fortnfdon in Reverter, of any Manors, ^'.Ca;.£y.'' Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments whatfoever, at any Time hereafter to be fued or brought by ^- '• "i^h y Occafion or Means of any Title or Caufe hereafter happening, fliall be fued and taken within twenty ''"'^^■*- Years next after the Title and Caufe of Adion firft defcended or fallen, and at no Time after the faid twenty Years; (3} and that no Perfon or Perfons that now hath any Right or Title of Entry into any Entry into Land, Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments now held from him or them, Ihall thereinto enter, but *= fhall be within twenty Years next after the End of this prefent Seffion of Parliament, or within twenty ears tT*cnt7yVr!rs. next after any other Title of Entry accrued; (4) and that no Perfon or Perfons fliall at any Time here- z i^ent. 340. ' . after make any Entry into any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, but within twenty Years next after '^°^?"'p!?' *" his or their Right or Title which (hall hereafter iirft defcend or accrue to the fame ; and in Default fe74Anll•c^ thereof, fuch Perfons fo not entring, and their Heirs, fliall be utterly excluded and difabled from fuch c. j6. Sea. '16. Entry after to be made ; any former Law or Statute to the contrary notwithftanding. II. Provided neverthelefs. That if any Perfon or Perfons, that is or fliall be entitled to fuch Writ or Infants, Feniei Writs, or that hath or fliall have fuch Right or Title of Entry, be or Ihall be at the Time of the faid Covert, &.;. e:£. Right or Title firft defcended, accrued, come or fallen, within the Age of one and twenty Years, "^'* ' Feme Covert, Non compos mentis, imprifoned or beyond the Seas, that then fuch Perfon and Perfons, and his and their Heir and Heirs, fliall or may, notwithftanding the faid twenty Years be expired, bring his A<5tion, or make his Entry, as he might have done before this A6t ; ( 2 ) fo as fuch Perfon and Perfons, or his or their Heir and Heirs, fliall within ten Years next after his and their full Age, Difcoverture, coming of found Mind, Enlargement out of Prifon, or coming into this Realm, or Death, take Benefit of and fue forth the fame, and at no Time after the faid ten Years. III. And be it further enatfted, That all Aftions of Trefpafs .^zwr^ claufum fregit, all Anions of TheUmitaiion Trefpafs, Detinue, Adtion fur Trover, and Replevin for taking away of Goods and Cattle, all Adlions of "rtain Pcrfo- of Account, and upon the Cafe, other than fuch Accounts as concern the Trade of Merchandize be- Mardi Tc"-.' tween Merchant and Merchant, their Fadtors or Servants, all Adtions of Debt grounded upon any Stile 109, Ij 4/ Lending or Contradt without Specialty; all Adlions of Debt for Arrearges of Rent, and all Aftions of ?3'- Aflault, Menace, Battery, Wounding and Imprifonment, or any of them which (hall be fued or brought Hetiey ho- at any Time after the End of this prefent Selfion of Parliament, (hall be commenced and fued within March 151! the Time and Limitation hereafter expre(red, and not after (that is to fay) (2) the faid Aflions upon the ^ JJ^j"^'* Cafe (other than for Slander) and the faid Actions for Account, and the laid Adions for Trefpafs, Debt, carthew 136. Detinue and Replevin for Goods or Cattle, and the faid Adtion of Trefpafs ^are claufum fregit, within 1 t,utw. 260.' three Years next after the End of this prefent Seflion of Parliament, or within fix Y'ears next after the ' ^^" j'^-g"' 38« Caufe of fuch Adtions or Suit, and not after; (3) and the faid Adions of Trefpafs, of Afl"ault, Battery, { Mod! a.i.''*^' Wounding, Imprifonment or any of them, within one Year next after the End of this prefent Sefiion 3 Mod.' 311! of Parliament, or within four Years next after the Caufe of fuch Adlions or Suit, and not after ; (^) and I ^1^°^"' ^i' " the faid Adlions upon the Cafe for Words, within one Year after the End of this prefent Selfion of Par- jSaik74iI*4i4. ■.liament, or within two Years next after the Words fpoken, and not after. Cro. car. 115, 14 r, 160, 145, 195,381,405,513,333. iVern.456. 2 Vern.604,695. 2 Vent. 185. 3 Lev. 245,283. iSalk.28. a Fmc 193, 259, IV. And neverthelefs be itenadted. That if in any the faid Adlions or Suits, Judgment be given for the Their Limita- PlaintifF, and the fame be reverfed by Error, or a Verdidl pafs for the Plaintiff, and upon Matter alledged ment^or'out"^^" in Arrell of Judgment, the Judgment be given againft the Plaintilf, that he take nothing by his Plaint, lawry levtried. Writ or Bill ; or if any the faid Adlions (hall be brought by Original, and the Defendantlherein be out- lawed, and fhall after reverfethe Outlawry; that in all fuch Cafes the Party Plaintiff, his Heirs, Executors or Adminiftrators, as the Cafe fhall require, may commence a new Adtion or Suit from Time to Time, within a Year after ftich Judgment reverfed, or fuch Judgment given againft the Plaintilf, or Outlawry re- verfed and not after. V. And be it further enadted. That in all Adlions of Trefpafs §uare clavfum fregit, hereafter to be After Jujgment brought, wherein the Defendant or Defendants (hall difclaim in his or their Plea, to make any Title or orWonfuirina Claim to the Land in which the Trefpafs is by the Declaration fuppofed to be done, and the IVefpafs be 2^Yt*tif "pf"' - by Negligence or involuntary, the Defendant or Defendants (hall be admitted to plead a Difclaimer, and t[ffis barred to"' that the trefpafs was by Negligence or involuntary, and a Tenderer Offer of fuflkient Amends for luch renew the Suit. Trefpafs before the Adlion brought, whereupon or upon fome of them, the Plaintiff or PlaintiiFs (hall be ^^'^y "JS- enforced to join Iffue ; (2) and it the faid Iffue be foimd for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plain- tiff or Plaintiffs fhall be nonfuited, the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fliall be clearly barred from the laid Adlion or Adlions, and all other Suit concerning the fame. j^ Aaion? of VI. And be it further enadled by the Authority aforefaid, That in all Ac5lions upon the Cafe for flan- slander unrfer derous Words, to be fued or profecuted by any Perfon or Perfons in any the Courts of Record at Wcjl- 40 s. the piain- minfier, or in any Courts whatfoever that hath Power to hold Plea of the fame, after the End of this rf^t-reatercoiu prefent Seffion of Parliament, if the Jury upon the Trial of the Iffue in fuch Adlion, or the Jury that than Damges. (hall enquire of the Damages, do find or affefs the Damages under forty Shillings, then the Plaintiff or P^'""" 529. . Plaintiffs in fuch Adlion (hall have and recover only fo much Colis as the Damages fo given cr aflefled cro c«'%* amount unto, without any further Increafe of the fame; any Law, Statute, Cuftom or iJfage to the con- Lee'gz. trary in any wife notwithftanding. Latch 2', 58. VII. Provided neverthelefs, and be it further enadled. That if any Perfon or Perfons that is or faall be infants, rem« cntituled to any fuch Adlion of Trefpafs, Detinue, Adlion fur Trover, Replevin, Adlions of Accounts, coven. &c ex-