{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aire-and-calder-navigation-act-1698/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aire-and-calder-navigation-act-1698/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/10/25",
  "legislation_title": "Aire and Calder Navigation Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aire-and-calder-navigation-act-1698",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "In Actions for executing Act,",
  "text": "General Issue may be pleaded; Costs.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Suite or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any Persons or Persons for any thing that he or they shall doe or cause to be done in pursuance or in Execution of this Act such Person or Persons so sued in any Court whatsoever shall and may plead the Generall Issue of not Guilty and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the speciall matter in Evidence And if in any such Suit the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or forbeare Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict shall passe against him or Judgment be given against him upon a Demurrer then in any of the said Cases the Defendant or Defendants shall recover full Costs for which he and they shall have the like Remedy And this Act shall be taken and allowed in all Courts within this Kingdom as a publick Act and all Judges and Justices are hereby required as such to take Notice thereof without Speciall Pleading the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/10/25/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:12.724624+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}