{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/frivolous-suits-act-1698/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/frivolous-suits-act-1698/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/11/9",
  "legislation_title": "Frivolous Suits Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/frivolous-suits-act-1698",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Sheriffs in Wales and Counties Palatine not to hold Party to Special Bail, unless for such Sum and upon such Affidavit as herein mentioned.",
  "text": "And whereas the holding of Persons inhabiting within the said Principality of Wales and Counties Palatine to speciall Baile in small Actions is oppressive and vexatious to the Subject For Remedy whereof be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Sheriffe or other Officer within the said Principality or Counties Palatine upon any Writt or Processe issueing out of any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminister shall hold any Person to Speciall Baile unlesse an Affidavit be first made in Writing and filed in that Court out of which such Writt or Processe is to issue signifying the Cause of Action and that the same is Twenty Pounds and upwards And where the Cause of Action is Twenty Pounds, and upwards Bail shall not be taken for more than the Summe expressed in such Affidavit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/9/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:30.663949+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."
}