{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/excise-act-1688/section-XVI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/excise-act-1688/section-XVI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/24",
  "legislation_title": "Excise Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/excise-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVI",
  "heading": "Using Molossus or other Compositions in brewing.",
  "text": "Penalty, Forfeiture of Liquors and £100.\nAnd bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the first of September one thousand six hundred eighty nine noe Common Brewer or Retailer of Beere or Ale shall use in the brewing or working of any Beere or Ale any Molossus Course Sugar Honey or Composition or Extract of Sugar upon the penaltie of the Forfeiture for every such Offence of all such Liquors wherein any Molossus or Course Sugar Hony or such Composition or Extract shall be putt and alsoe of the Summe of one hundred pounds one moyety of all the said Forfeiture to be to their Majesties the other moyety to the Informer to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of their Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoigne Wager of Law or any more then one Imparlance shall shall be allowed soe as such Suite be commenced within six months after such Forfeiture incurred",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/24/section/XVI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:21.886772+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."
}