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Section VIII Judgments and Decrees good both in Law and Equity.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

No Writ of Error or Certiorari; A Register Book for the Judgments to be kept by the Mayor and Aldermen.

And for the better satisfaction of Builders Purchasers and other concerned It is further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all and every Judgement Order and Decree soe made as aforesaid shall be good, valid and effectuall both in Law and Equity to all intents and purposes and shall be obeyed by all persons concerned therein, and shall binde and conclude Infants, Feme coverts, Ideots, persons of non sane memory or beyond the Sea, Tennants in Taile, Bishops Deanes and X1Chapters and all other Ecclesiasticall Persons and Corporations and their Successors and all other persons Bodyes Naturall and Pollitique whatsoever and that noe Writt of Error or Certiorari shall be for the removeall or reversall of the same. And for the perpetuating the same to all Posterity that the said Judgements Orders and Decrees shall be fairely entred into one or more X2Booke or Bookes and be subscribed with the X3Names of the persons that made the same and that the said Bookes be delivered in unto the Maior and Aldermen of the said Towne of Northampton for the time being, to the end the same may be safely disposed and kept in the Chamber of the said Towne for ever amongst their Records and Evidences and that all persons concerned may have free liberty of recourse unto the said Bookes to peruse the same from time to time as occasion shall require. The powers and authorities given and mentioned in this Act to continue for the space of ten yeares and noe longer.

Annotations

Editorial notes

X1

interlined on the Roll.

X2

O. omits.

X3

Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Name O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]