# Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1678, Section XX: Perjury.


Punishment.
Provided alwayes (and to deterr all persons who are by the charitable intention of this Act to be relieved from abuseing the Favour hereby to them intended) That if any person who shall in pursuance of this Act take his Oath for any of the purposes hereby appointed shall forsweare or perjure himselfe Then such person being thereof lawfully convicted shall beyond and over and above the Penalties which may by the Law now in being be inflicted suffer Imprisonment for the space of Seaven yeares without Baile or Maineprise.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/30/4/section/XX (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/insolvent-debtors-relief-act-1678/section-XX
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