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Section XXIX Persons to whom Money due by virtue of Act, may assign and transfer his Right.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Memorial of Assignment without Fee.; Assignee may also in like Manner assign his Right.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That every Person or Persons to whome any Money shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred in the Booke of Register aforesaid for Payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assignes by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may Assigne and Transferr his Right Title Interest and Benefit of such Warrant or Order or any part thereof to any other which being notifyed in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid and an Entry and Memoriall thereof X1 alsoe made in the Booke of Registry aforesaid for Warrants which the Officer shall upon Request without Fee or Charge accordingly make shall Entitle such Assignee his Executors Administrators and Assignes to the Benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignee may in like manner Assigne againe and soe toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make Void Release or Discharge the same or any the Moneys thereby due or any Part thereof

If Action brought General Issue may be pleaded.

Treble Costs.

And be further Enacted That if any Action Suite Plaint or Information shall be Commenced or Prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall doe in pursuance or in execution of this Act such person or persons soe Sued in any Court whatsoever shall or may Pleade the Generall Issue and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the Speciall Matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiffe or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuite or forbeare further Prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict passe against him the Defendant and Defendants shall recover their treble Costs for which they shall have the like Remedy as in any Case where Costs by Law are given to Defendants.

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Editorial notes

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: thereof O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]