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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-proceedings-act-1688/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-proceedings-act-1688/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/4",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Proceedings Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-proceedings-act-1688",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Continuing Actions and Pleas lately depending.",
  "text": "Pleas, &c. that were returnable at certain Days revived, ; and Parties to appear,; Penalty.\nTherefore for the Continueing and Reviveing all manner of Actions or Pleas lately Depending and all manner of Processe that were Returnable or Depending in any of the said Courts and which were Discontinued and putt without Day by the not holding the said Terme Bee it Enacted by our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queene by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That all Pleas Writts Bills Actions Suites Plaints Processe Precepts or other Things whatsoever that were Returnable or had Day or Dayes in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Common Pleas or Exchequer in Octabis Hillarii Quindena Hillarii Crastino Purificationis Beate Marie or Octabis Purificationis Beate Marie last past or at any Day or Days certaine after any of the said Returns shall Stand Continue and be Revived to all intents and purposes and are hereby Continued and Adjourned unto and shall and may be Pleaded Heard and Proceeded upon at and on the Returne in Quindena Pasche next ensueing And that all Parties that had Day by any Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suites Plaints Processe Precepts or other Thing or Things whatsoever at or in any of the said Returns in the said Terme of St Hillary or at any Day or Days certaine after any of the said Returns in the said Courts or any of them shall appeare in the said Courts respectively at and on the said Returne in Quindena Pasche under the Penalty of forfeiting any Obligations or Recognizances Conditioned for the Appearance of the said Parties at any time of the said Returns or Dayes in the said Terme of St Hillary or under any other Penalty that might have incurred upon the said Parties their Pledges and Sureties for not Appearing at any of the said Returns or Dayes if the said Terme had beene holden or kept",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Recontinueing O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/4/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:40.886682+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."
}