{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvent-debtors-relief-act-1695/section-XII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvent-debtors-relief-act-1695/section-XII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/12",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvent-debtors-relief-act-1695",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "If Prisoner dis-charged be again arrested for Debt contracted before Discharge, and upon shewing Duplicate of Discharge Officer shall refuse to set him at Liberty, he may apply to the Judges or other Persons herein named, and be set at Liberty upon certain Terms.",
  "text": "And further Bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Prisoner who hath been discharged by virtue of any of the Acts of Parliament herein before mentioned or who shall bee discharged by virtue of this Act, shall happen to bee arrested again for any Debt contracted before such his Discharge if such Prisoner shall shew a Duplicate of his or her Discharge under the Hands and Seales of the Justices of the Peace by whom hee or she was discharged or of any two of them and the Officer refuseing to sett att Liberty him or her soe arrested and shewing such Duplicate then and in such Case upon Petition to either of the Two Lords Chief Justices of the Kings Bench and Co[m]mon Pleas or Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the time being or to any one of his Majesties Justices of the Courts of Kings Bench or Co[m]mon-Pleas for the time being or to any Justice or Justices of the Peace of the Place or County where such Prisoner shall bee under Arrest or in Custody the said Lords Chief Justices or Lord Chief Baron or Justices of the said Courts or Justices of the Peace or any one or more of them shall and may su[m]mon before him or them such Parties as hee or they shall think fitt and upon hearing and examining the Matter in a su[m]mary way shall and may sett att Liberty and discharge such Prisoner upon his or her giving a Warrant of Attorney to appeare and file Co[m]mon Bail to every such Action and to plead thereunto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/12/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:41.901163+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."
}