{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1692/section-XXVIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1692/section-XXVIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/4/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny Act 1692",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1692",
  "path": "section/XXVIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXVIII",
  "heading": "Officers quartering Wives, &c.",
  "text": "If Officer or Soldier, cashiered; If Constable, &c; Penalty 20s.\nAnd whereas great abuses are frequently comited by the liberty taken by some Officers and Soldiers to quarter their Wives Children and made Servants in their Quarters contrary to the purport and meaning of this Act Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Officer Military or Civil by this Act authorized to quarter Soldiers in any Houses hereby appointed for that purpose shall att any time dureing the continuance of this Act quarter any of the Wives Children or Maid Servants of Officer or Soldier in any such Houses against the consent of the Owners the party offending if Officer or Soldier of the Army shall upon complaint and proof thereof made to the Commander in Chief of the Army or Judge Advocate be ipso facto cashiered and if a Constable Tythingman or other Civil Officer he shall forfeit to the party grieved the Sum of Twenty shillings upon complaint and proof thereof made to the next Justice of Peace of the place to be levied by Warrant of such Justice by distresse and sale of his Goods rendring the overplus to the party after deduction of reasonable Charges in takeing the same.",
  "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: an O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/4/13/section/XXVIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:20.310261+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."
}