{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/escape-of-debtors-etc-act-1696/section-XII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/27",
  "legislation_title": "Escape of Debtors, etc. Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/escape-of-debtors-etc-act-1696",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "On Bill filed against Warden, and Rule given out, Judgement to be signed unless Plea in Three Days after Rule is out.",
  "text": "And whereas the way of proceeding against the Warden of the Fleet Prison by Bill in the Courts of Co[m]mon Pleas & Excheq[uer] att Westminster is found to be very dilatory Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First Day of May itt shall and may be lawfull to and for any Person or Persons having cause of Action against the Warden of the Fleet Prison upon Bill filed in the said Courts of Co[m]mon Pleas or Exchequer against the said Warden and a Rule being given to plead thereto to be out Eight Days att most after filing such Bill to signe Judgement against the said Warden of the Fleet unlesse hee plead to the said Bill within Three Days after such Rule is out.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/27/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:12.087359+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."
}