{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gloucestershire-roads-act-1697/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gloucestershire-roads-act-1697/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/18",
  "legislation_title": "Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gloucestershire-roads-act-1697",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Actions for executing Act to be laid in the County of Gloucester; General Issue may be pleaded.",
  "text": "Double Costs.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Suit shall be co[m]menced against any Person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act that in any such Case the said Action shall be laid in the said County of Gloucester and not elsewhere and the Defendant in such Action may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence att any Tryal to be had thereupon and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of the said Act and if itt shall soe appeare to be done or that such Action shall be brought in any other County that then the Jury shall find for the Defendant and upon such Verdict or if the Plaintiff shall become nonsuit or discontinue his Action after the Defendant shall have appeared or if uppon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff then the Defendant shall have and recover his double Costs & Charges and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant hath in other Cases by Law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/18/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:55.259080+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."
}