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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/habeas-corpus-act-1640/section-VIII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha1/16/10",
  "legislation_title": "Habeas Corpus Act 1640",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/habeas-corpus-act-1640",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "VIII. Limitation of Information, &c.",
  "text": "And lastly Provided and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be sued impleaded molested or troubled for any offence against this present Act unlesse the party supposed to have so offended shall be sued or impleaded for the same within two yeares at the most after such time wherein the said offence shall be committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/10/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:43:13.705442+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."
}