{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coinage-act-1695/section-IX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coinage-act-1695/section-IX.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/19",
  "legislation_title": "Coinage Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coinage-act-1695",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "In case of Question on Action whether Bullion seized be Foreign Bullion,",
  "text": "Ones probandi on Owner.; If no Proof, then Bullion adjudged forfeited.\nAnd bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Seizure of any molten Silver or Bullion shall happen to bee made in pursueance and execution of this Act or that any Action Bill Plaint or Information shall bee brought for any of the Forfeitures or Penalties incurred by this Act and a Doubt or Question shall arise thereon whether the Molten Silver or Bullion then in question were really and truely Foreigne Bullion or prohibited to bee exported or otherwise forfeited by this Act in every such Case the Proofe shall lye on the part of the Owner Proprietor or Claimer of such molten Silver or Bullion And unlesse the Owner Proprietor or Claimer or the Party sued shall prove that the molten Silver or Bullion in question was att the tyme of the Seizure or Forfeiture thereof Foreigne Bullion and that noe part thereof was (before the same was molten) the Coyne of this Realme nor Clippings thereof nor Plate wrought within this Kingdome That in every such Case for want of such Proofe the molten Silver & Bullion in question shall bee adjudged deemed construed and taken to bee molten Silver and Bullion forfeited by this Act and lyable to the Penalties before mentioned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/19/section/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:38.068261+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."
}