# Clerk of the Market Act 1640, Section VII: General Issue may be pleaded in Action for executing Act.


Treble Costs.
Provided alsoe that no Justice or Justices of the Peace Maior Bailiffe or other head Officer Church wardens Overseers or any other authorized by this Statute for the due execution thereof in any point shall be sued impleaded or otherwise impeached for doing or executing theire said Offices respectively And if any Suit or Suits hereafter shall be commenced against them or any of them theire Agents or Assistants touching the premisses That then it shall and may be lawfull for them and every of them so sued or troubled in any Court or Courts wheresoever to plead the generall issue Not guilty and to give this Statute in Evidence or any other speciall matter in Evidence And in case by or upon this Law they or any of them shall be found not guilty or the Plaintiffe be Non-suited the Defendant or Defendants shall recover triple costs against the Plaintiffe for his unjust vexation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/19/section/VII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/clerk-of-the-market-act-1640/section-VII
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