# Continuance of Process, etc. Act 1660, Section II: Writs, Process, Pleas, &c. returnable at a certain Day continued adjourned.; Parties in Pleas, &c. having Day as herein mentioned, to have the Return.


Parties in Pleas, &c. having Day as herein mentioned, to have the Return "In the Morrow of the Ascension, &c." prefixed.; Sheriffs, &c. to keep all Writs, &c. until the Fifth Return.
And bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Pleas Writts Bills Actions Suites Plaints ProcessePrecepts & other thing or things whatsoever aforesaid pleadable or to be pleaded returnable or to be returnedor having day in any manner whatsoever at any of the said Returns, or any day or dayes certaine after any ofthe said Returns Be and are hereby continued and adjourned unto (and shall and may be pleaded returnedheard and determined in the respective Courts aforesaid at or on the fifth Returne of the said Terme of latecalled, In the morrow of the Assension of our Lord: And that all Parties in any Pleas Writts Bills ActionsSuites, Plaints Processe or other thing or things whatsoever haveing dayes given them at any of the said fowerfirst Returns, or at any other day or dayes certaine after any of the said Returns in the said Courts or any ofthem by vertue of this present Act have the said Returne of late called In the morrow of the Assension of ourLord prefixed them therin And that all Sheriffes Officers, and other Ministers whatsoever and every of themrespectively keepe in their han all Writts Bills Processe and Precepts and all other things whatsoever to themdirected respectively returnable, or to be returned in the severall Courts aforesaid at the said fower first Returnesor any of them in or at any day certaine as aforesaid untill the said fifth Returne of late called The morrow of theAssension of our Lord, and then returne the same into the said severall Courts respectively, That such proceedingsmay be then had therupon as should have beene had in case the said fower first Returnes had beene kepteand holden.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/3/section/II (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/continuance-of-process-etc-act-1660/section-II
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