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Unlawfully to maintain any suit in the Kings courts, embrace free-holders or jurors, suborn witnesses, &c.
Penalty 10l. to the King and prosecutor.
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III. And furthermore, That no manner of person or persons, of what esteate, degree or condition soever he or they be, doe hereafter unlawfully maintaine or cause or procure any unlawful maintenance in any action, demaund, suite or complaint in any of the Kings courts of the chancery, castle-chamber, or elsewhere within this his Highnesse realme of Ireland, where any person or persons have or hereafter shall have authority by vertue of the Kings commission, patent, or writ to hold plea of lands, or to examine, heare or determine any title of lands, or any matter of witnesses concerning the title, right, or interest of any lands, tenements or hereditaments; and also, that no person or persons of what estate, degree, or condition soever he or they be, doe hereafter unlawfully retaine for maintenance of any suit or plea any person or persons, or embrace any free-holders or jurors, or suborne any witnesses by letters, rewards, promises, or any other sinister labour or means for to maintaine any matter or cause, or to the disturbance or hinderance of justice, or to the procurement or occasion of any manner of perjury by false verdict or otherwise in any manner of courts aforesaid, upon paine to forfeit for every such offence ten pounds, the one moytie thereof unto the King our Soveraign Lord, and the other moytie to him that will sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of the Kings courts; in which action, no essoyne, protection, wager of law nor injunction shall be allowed. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1878.]
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