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The persons committing perjury, and convicted, forfeit 20l. and imprisoned 6 months:
their oath not to be received in any court of record till judgment reversed.
Upon reversal, damages against the person procuring the judgment by action on the case.
If offender has not 20l. to be set in pillory by the sheriff or head officer,
to have his ears nailed,
disabled to be sworn till judgment reversed,
thereupon to recover damages as before.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, that if any person or persons, after the end of this Parliament, either by the subornation, unlawfull procurement, sinister perswasion or means of any others, or by their owne act, consent or agreement, willfully or corruptly commit any manner of willfull perjurie, by his or their deposition in any the courts before mentioned, or before any the judges, commissioners, or officers before mentioned, or being examined ad perpetuam rei memoriam: that then every person and persons so offending, and being thereof duely convicted or attainted, by the laws of this realm, shall for his or their offence loose and forfeit twenty pounds, and to have imprisonment by the space of six months, without baile or mainprise, and the oath of such person or persons so offending, from thenceforth, not to be received in any court of record within this realm, untill such time as the judgment given against the said person or persons shall be reversed by attaint or otherwise. And that upon every such reversall, the parties grieved to recover his or their damages against all and every such person or persons, as did procure the said judgment, so reversed, to be given against them, and every of them, by action or actions, to be sued upon his or their case or cases, according to the course of the common lawes of this realm. And if it happen the said offendor or offendours, so offending, not to have any goods or chattels to the value of xx. li. that then he or they to be set upon the pillorie in some market place within the county, city or borough, where the said offences shall be committed, by the sheriffe or his minister, if it shall fortune to be without any citie or towne corporate; and if it happen to be within any such citie or towne corporate, then by the said head officer or officers of such citie or towne corporate, or by his or their ministers, and there to have both his ears nailed, [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1878,] and from thenceforth to be discredited and dishabled for ever to be sworn in any of the courts of record aforesaid, until such time as the judgment shall be reversed, and thereupon to recover his damages in maner and forme aforesaid . . [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]
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