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Drivers of cattle to slaughter, or vender thereof, exchanging them for worse, deemed cheats, and to pay treble damages.
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V. And whereas butchers and other persons, buying cattle in the country to carry to be slaughtered, are often under a necessity to hire strangers to drive the said cattle, who for private advantage often exchange and dispose of some of the best of the said cattle, and put much worse in their stead, and it is often practised by persons, that sell parcels of cattle to butchers and others for slaughtering, that they do after such sale exchange part of the cattle so sold for those of a much less value: for remedy whereof, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any such person or persons shall knowingly exchange any such cattle in manner as aforesaid, he or they shall be deemed a common cheat or cheats, and shall satisfie and pay to the party aggrieved treble the damages by him or her sustained; to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Dublin, wherein no essoign, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed, nor any more than one imparlance.
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