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Bailiffs, deputies or clerks impannelling juries, or intermeddling with process shall first take said oath.
Penalty 40l.
English, to the king and prosecutor, for acting before taking the oath.
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IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every bayliffe of franchises, deputy, and clerke of every sheriffe and under-sheriffe, and every other person and persons, which after forty dayes after the end of this present session of Parliament, shall have authority or take upon him to impannell or return any inquest, jury or tales, or to intermeddle with execution of processe in any court of record, shall before he or they intermeddle with any further execution thereof, receive and take the oath aforesaid, corporally, before the person or persons appointed by this act to minister the same, or before the head officer of the place, if it be a towne corporate, changing onely the words, and the office of under-sheriffe, contained in the oath expressed in this act to such words as are convenient for the deputation, office, or place in which the party which taketh the oath is to be exercised in; and if any the said persons limitted to take the oath aforesaid, do take upon him to impannell or return any inquest, jury or tales, or to intermeddle with the execution of processe, not having before taken the oath aforesaid, that then every such person shall loose and forfeit the summe of forty pounds of currant English money; the one moiety to be to the use of our soveraigne lord the king, the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]
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