Section XXIII Lands and Houses lying unoccupied, and no Distress found, nor Owner found in the County;
Commissioners to certify to Exchequer, &c.; Such Certificate a sufficient Charge; Process thereupon out of Exchequer.
Provided alwayes and bee it further Enacted That in case any Lands or Houses in any Parish or Constablewicke shall lye unoccupied and noe Distress can be found on the same nor the Person of the true Owner or Proprietor can be found within the County wherein such House or Land lyeth by reason whereof the Rate and Assessment upon such unoccupied X1House and Lands cannot be Levyed That then upon Complaint made thereof to the Commissioners for the County where such Case shall happen to be the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shall Certifie into Their Majestyes Court of Exchequer the Name of the Person whose Lands or House soe lyeth unoccupied together with the Summe thereupon Assessed and the Parish or Place where such Land or House lyeth which Certificate is hereby declared to be a sufficient Charge upon the Person and Land or House therein named and shall make the Person Debtor to Their Majesties for the Summe soe Assessed and the Court of Exchequer shall issue out Processe thereupon against the Body Goods and all other the Lands of such Debtor untill the Summe soe Assessed be fully and actually Levyed and Paid to Their Majestyes
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Houses O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]