{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statute-of-marlborough-1267-distress/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statute-of-marlborough-1267-distress/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Hen3cc1415/52/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Statute of Marlborough 1267 [Distress]",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statute-of-marlborough-1267-distress",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Distresses shall not be driven out of the County. Distresses shall be reasonable.",
  "text": "None from henceforth shall cause any Distress that he hath taken, to be driven out of the County where it was [taken]; and if one Neighbour do so to another of his own Authority, and without Judgment, he shall make Fine, as above is said, as for a Thing done against the Peace; nevertheless, if the Lord Presume so to do against his Tenant, he shall be grievously punished by Amerciament.\nMoreover, Distresses shall be reasonable, and not too great; and he that taketh great and unreasonable Distresses, shall be grievously amerced for the Excess of such Distresses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: undue"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Hen3cc1415/52/1/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:45:20.370986+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."
}