{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1695/section-X",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1695/section-X.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/28",
  "legislation_title": "Wool Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wool-act-1695",
  "path": "section/X",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "X",
  "heading": "In Actions for executing Act,",
  "text": "General Issue may be pleaded; Treble Costs.\nProvided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action [or Suit2] shall bee brought and prosecuted by any Person or Persons against any Justice of Peace or other Person imployed by them or any of them in the Execuc[i]on of this Act for any Matter Cause or Thing by them or either of them done co[m]mitted or executed by virtue or reason of this Act or any Clause or Article therein contained That then and in every such Case the Action shall be layd in the proper County where the Fact was done and co[m]mitted and not elsewhere And the Defendant or Defendants may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence att the Tryal That the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of this Act And if upon Examination it shall so happen to be done the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants And in such Case or if the Plaintiff shall be nonsuit or discontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants hath or have appeared the Defendant or Defendants shall have and recover their Treble Costs which hee or they shall sustaine or be put unto by reason of his or their wrongfull Vexation in Defence of the said Action or Suit And that every Action Suit Bill Plaint or Information by virtue of this Act shall bee commenced and prosecuted within One yeare after the Fact co[m]mitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "so also in Original Act; but levied, in King's Printer's Copy."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/28/section/X",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:33.268068+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."
}