{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-trent-navigation-act-1698/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-trent-navigation-act-1698/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/10/26",
  "legislation_title": "River Trent Navigation Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-trent-navigation-act-1698",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Undertaker to have 3d. a Tun for all Goods, &c. carried on the said River above Wilden Ferry;",
  "text": "and may sue, for the same; or distrain the Goods; If Distress not redeemed, then to be appraised and sold; Application of Proceeds.\nAnd it is hereby further enacted That for and in consideration of the great Charges and Expences which the said Undertaker or his Assignes will be at in and about the said Premisses it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Undertaker his Heires and Assignes and no other Person or Persons whatsoever from time to time and at all times hereafter to ask demand receive recover and take to his and their owne Use and Uses of and from all and every Person and Persons that shall carry or convey or cause to be carried or conveyed any Wares Merchandizes or other things upon the said River or any Part thereof or otherwise navigate on the same above the said Place called Wilden Ferry such reasonable Duties Rates or Prices as he or they shall think fit Provided that such Duties Rates or Prices exceed not Three Pence by the Tun and so proportionable to that Rate for any greater or lesser Quantity And in case of Neglect or Refusall of Payment thereof the said Lord Pagett his Heires and Assignes or such other Person or Persons as he or they shall appoint their severall and respective Heires Executors Administratorts and Assignes shall and may sue for the same by Action of Debt or on the Case in any Court of Record or other Court in which Action or Actions no Wager of Law shall be allowed nor above one Imparlance or to distraine or make Stay of any Goods or the Vessells wherein such Goods are carried for which such Rates or Duties are to be paid untill due Payment thereof together with reasonable Charges for takeing such Distresse be paid And if such Distresse shall not be redeemed within Five Daies after the takeing thereof the Persons distraineing may with the Constable or Headborough or other Officer of the Place where such Distresse shall be taken (who is hereby required to be aiding and assisting therein) cause the said Vessell or Goods soe distrained or some Part thereof to be appraised by Two sworne Appraisors to be appointed by such Constable Headborough or other Officer whom such Constable Headborough or other Officer is hereby impowered to sweare to appraise the same truly and indifferently according to the best of their Judgement and after such Appraisement shall and may lawfully sell the same or any Part thereof for Satisfaction of such Rate or Duty and the Charges of such Distresse Appraisement and Sale leaving the Overplus (if any be) in the Hands of such Constable Headborough or other Officer for the Owners Use",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/10/26/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:12.094971+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."
}