{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698/section-XIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698/section-XIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/10/14",
  "legislation_title": "Trade to Newfoundland Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-to-newfoundland-act-1698",
  "path": "section/XIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Capital Crimes committed in Newfoundland, &c. tried in any County in England.\nAnd whereas severall Persons that have been guilty of Thefts Robberies Murders and other Felonies upon the Land in Newfoundland and the Islands thereunto adjacent have many times escaped unpunished because the Tryall of such Offenders hath heretofore been ordered and adjudged in no other Court of Justice but before the Lord High Constable and Earl Marshall of England For Reformation thereof and for the more speedy and effectuall Punishment of such Offences for the time to come Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Robberies Murders and Felonies and all other Capitall Crimes whatsoever which at any time or times after the said Twenty fifth Day of March shall be done and committed in or upon the Land in Newfoundland or in any of the Islands thereunto, belonging shall and may be enquired of tryed heard determined and adjudged in any Shire or County of this Kingdom of England by virtue of the Kings Commission or Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery or any of them according to the Laws of this Land used for the Punishment of such Robberies Murders Felonies and other Capitall Crimes done and committed within this Realme",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/10/14/section/XIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:24.994012+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."
}