Maintenance and Embracery Act, 1634

Offendors must be sued within a year.

VI. Provided alway, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall not extend to charge any person or persons with any the penalties mentioned in the said act, for any offence by him or them committed contrary to the said act, except the same person or persons so offending be sued thereof by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of the Kings courts, within one yeare next after the same offence by him or them committed, as is aforesaid.