# Offences against the Person Act 1861, Section 45: Certificate or conviction shall be a bar to any other proceedings.


If any person against whom any such complaint as in section 44 of this Act shall have been preferred by or on the behalf of the party aggrieved shall have obtained such certificate, or, having been convicted, shall have paid the whole amount adjudged to be paid, or shall have suffered the imprisonment . . . awarded, in every such case he shall be released from all further or other proceedings, civil or criminal, for the same cause.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/45 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-45
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