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A.D. 1732-3]

1. Whereas in and by an Act made in the fifth year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled an Act to explain, amend and render more effectual an Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act to prevent Vexatious Arrests, it is (inter alia) enacted That where the Cause of Action should not amount to the Sum of Ten Pounds or upwards, in any Superior Court, the Writ, Process, Declaration and all other Proceedings should be in the English Tongue, and written in Words at length, in a common legible Hand and Character, and the Defendant or Defendants in such Cases (a Copy of such Process in English having been served, as by the said Act is directed) shall appear at the Return thereof, or within eight days after such Return: And whereas the Courts of Great Sessions in the Principality of, and the Court of Assize in the County Palatine of Chester are held only for and during the Space of six days, Therefore for the more effectual and speedy Determination of all Actions personal, to be commenced in the said Courts of Great Sessions, and the said Court of Assize respectively, where the Debt or Damages expressed in the said Process, or declared for, do not amount to the sum of Ten Pounds, Be it enacted therefore by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That in all such personal Actions where the Debt or Damages as aforesaid shall not amount to the sum of Ten pounds, to be commenced in the said Courts of Great Sessions and Assize, and where the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, in such Action or Actions, shall sue out an original Writ or Process, and serve the Defendant or Defendants with a true copy thereof, by a literate Person, at least Eight days before the commencement of the said Courts of Great Sessions and Assize respectively, and shall cause on every copy of such Process to be written the Notice in the said Act specified and directed, the Defendant or Defendants in such Cases shall appear at the Return of such original Writ or Process, or at or before the third Court to be held in the same respective Courts of Great Sessions and Assize, and in Case the said Defendant or Defendants shall not appear at