{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rivers-wye-and-lugg-act-1695/section-XXI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rivers-wye-and-lugg-act-1695/section-XXI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/14",
  "legislation_title": "Rivers Wye and Lugg Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rivers-wye-and-lugg-act-1695",
  "path": "section/XXI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXI",
  "heading": "In Actions for executing Act.",
  "text": "General Issue may be pleaded; Double Costs.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Suit or Information shall be co[m]menced or prosecuted against any Person or Persons for any thing that hee or they shall doe or cause to be done in pursuance or in Execution of this or the first before recited Act such Person or Persons soe sued in any Court whatsoever shall and may plead the General Issue and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act & the special Matter in Evidence And if in any such Suit the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or forbeare further Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict shall passe against him (then in any of the said Cases) the Defendant or Defendants shall recover double Costs for which hee and they shall have the like Remedy as in any other Case where Costs by Law are given to Defendants.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/14/section/XXI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:40.685007+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."
}