{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1694/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1694/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5-6/21",
  "legislation_title": "Stamps Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamps-act-1694",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Officers of Courts to set down upon the Writ the Day and Year, and enter it upon the Remembrance.",
  "text": "Penalty £10.\nAnd for preventing Abuses co[m]mitted by arresting Persons without any Writt or Legall Processe to justifie the same by meanes whereof the Duty hereby given to the Crowne upon such Processe will be lost Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the said Eight and twentieth day of June every Officer or Clerke belonging to the Courte of Kings-Bench Co[m]mon Pleas or Exchequer who shall signe any Writt or Processe before Judgment to arrest any person or persons thereupon shall att the signeing thereof sett downe upon such Writt or Processe the day and yeare of his signeing the same which shall be entered upon the Remembrance or in the Booke where the Abstracte of such Writt or Processe shall be entered upon paine to forfeite the su[m]me of Tenne pounds for every Offence or Neglect of such Officer or Clerke aforesaid to be recovered by any person who shall sue for the same in any of theire Majesties Courts of Record by Acc[i]on of Debte Bill Plainte or Informac[i]on wherein noe Wager of Lawe Protecc[i]on or Essoign or more then one Imparlance shall be allowed:-",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5-6/21/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:50.643182+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."
}