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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvent-debtors-relief-act-1678/section-VI",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/30/4",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1678",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvent-debtors-relief-act-1678",
  "path": "section/VI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VI",
  "heading": "Sheriff or Gaoler refusing, &c. to discharge Prisoner;",
  "text": "Penalty £20. and Punishment.\nAnd bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Sheriffe Goaler and Keeper of Prison shall refuse and delay to bring and discharge and sett at Liberty any Prisoner or Prisoners according to the Order of the Justice or Justices of the Peace made in pursuance of this Act or of the said former recited Act Every such Goaler Sheriffe and Keeper of Prison shall forfeite and pay to such Prisoners detained contrary to such Order the summe of Twenty pounds to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of His Majestyes Courts of Record and shall alsoe be subject to such Fine and Punishment as the said Justices of the Peace shall upon Complaint thereof to them made order and award",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: soe O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/30/4/section/VI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:15.618252+00:00"
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  "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."
}