{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1688/section-XVIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1688/section-XVIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/34",
  "legislation_title": "Trade with France Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XVIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVIII",
  "heading": "Selling sophisticated Wine; Penalty £300.",
  "text": "And for the preventing of the Mischiefs which may be occasioned by the sophisticating corrupting and adulterating of Wines dureing such time as they are by this Act allowed to be sold Bee it enacted That if any Merchant Vintner Wine-Cooper or other person selling Wine by Wholesale or Retaile shall corrupt sophisticate or adulterate any Wine or shall utter or sell any Wine corrupted sophisticated or adulterated such person shall forfeit the Sum of three hundred pounds for every such Offence the one moyety thereof to their Majesties and their Successors and the other moyety thereof to such person as shall sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law or more then one Imparlance shall be allowed and alsoe shall suffer Imprisonment by the space of three months without Baile or Mainprize.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/34/section/XVIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:07.313805+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."
}