{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1701/section-XXVIIn2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1701/section-XXVIIn2.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/13-14/2",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny Act 1701",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1701",
  "path": "section/XXVIIn2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXVII",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Officers quartering Wives, &c. of Soldiers against Consent of Landlord, &c.; Penalty on Military Officer; on Civil Officer.\nAnd whereas great Abuses are frequently committed by the Liberty taken by some Officers and Soldiers to quarter their Wives Children and Maid Servants in their Quarters contrary to the Purport and Meaning of this Act Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Officer Civil or Military by this Act authorized to quarter Soldiers in any Houses hereby appointed for that Purpose shall at any Time during 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 Tything Man 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 the Peace of the Place to be levied by Warrant of such Justice by Distress and Sale of his Goods rendring the Overplus to the Party after Deduction of reasonable Charges in taking the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O. omits."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/13-14/2/section/XXVIIn2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:01.811965+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."
}