{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estreats-personal-representatives-act-1692/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estreats-personal-representatives-act-1692/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/4/24",
  "legislation_title": "Estreats (Personal Representatives) Act 1692",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/estreats-personal-representatives-act-1692",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Oath to be given upon return of Estreats.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth all Clerks of the Court of Kings Bench Clerks of the Court of Co[m]mon Pleas Clerks of Assize Clerks of the Peace Towne Clerks Clerks of Sewers Clerks of the Marketts and others to whom it belongeth to make Returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer shall upon delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats take the Oath following that is to say.\nYou shall sweare That these Estreats now by you delivered are truely & carefully made upp and examined and that all Fines Issues Amerciaments Recognizancs and Forfeitures which were sett lost imposed or forfeited and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated in the Court of Exchequer are to the best of your knowledge and understanding therein contained And that in the same Estreats are alsoe contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made without any wilfull or fraudulent Discharge Omission Misnomer or Defect whatsoever So help you God Which said Oath the Barons of the Court of Exchequer or any of them are and is hereby required and impowered to administer from time to time accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/4/24/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:13.621573+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."
}