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220 Plaint, or Information, wherein no Wager of Law, Protection, or Essoin, or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed.

"17. And whereas, by sundry Statutes, Penalties are given for Offences thereby provided against, and such Penalties are directed to be sued for and recovered in his Majesty's Courts of Westminster only, and the enabling the respective Courts of Great Session to hold Pleas, or to have Cognizance in all such Cases arising or happening within their respective Jurisdictions, would be for the Ease and Benefit of the Inhabitants of the Dominion of "; be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the first Day of January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, in all Cases where any Penalty or Penalties is or are given by any Statute, and the same is, are, or shall be directed to be recovered in the Courts of Westminster, or either of them, excepting such as may by the Laws now in being be sued for only in his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and the Offence for which any such Penalty or Penalties hath or shall be given shall be done or committed in any of the Counties of, and the Defendant or Defendants liable to the same shall be resident within the Jurisdiction of the Great Session held for any County of , it shall and may be lawful to and for the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, Prosecutor or Prosecutors, or other Person to whom any such Penalty is given, or who shall be intitled to sue for the same, in every such Case, to sue for and recover the same in the Courts of Great Session respectively in , within which such Penalties have or shall be incurred, in such Manner and Form as he, she, or they might have done in the Courts at Westminster; and that the said respective Courts of Great Session shall have Jurisdiction as fully, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Courts had been respectively named in all and every of the said Acts, and the Powers thereby given extended to the said respective Courts.

A.D. 1793]

Whereas Persons against whom Judgments may be obtained in the Courts of Great Sessions in ... may, in order to avoid