Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
IV. Be it therefore now enacted, That whensoever the President of the
College, or Communalty of the Faculty of Physick of _London_, for the
time being, or such as the said President and College shall yearly,
according to the Tenor and Meaning of the said Act, authorise to search,
examine, correct and punish all Offenders and Transgressors in the said
Faculty, within the same City and Precinct in the said Act expressed,
shall send or commit any such Offender or Offenders for his or their
Offences or Disobedience, contrary to any Article or Clause contained in
the said Grant or Act, to any Ward, Gaol or Prison, within the same City
and Precinct (the Tower of _London_, except) That then from time to
time, the Warden, Gaoler or Keeper, Wardens, Gaolers, or Keepers of the
Wards, Gaols and Prisons within the City or Precinct aforesaid, (except
before excepted) shall receive into his or their Prisons all and every
such Person and Persons so offending, as shall be so sent or committed,
to him or them, as is aforesaid; and there shall safely keep the person
or persons so committed, in any of their Prisons, at the proper Costs
and Charges of the said Person or Persons so committed, without Bail or
Mainprise, until such time as such Offender or Offenders or Disobedient
be discharged of the said Imprisonment by the said President, and such
Persons as by the said College shall be thereto authorised; upon Pain
that all and every such Warden, Gaoler and Keeper, doing the contrary,
shall lose and forfeit double of such Fine and Amerciament as such
Offender and Offenders or Disobedients, shall be assessed to pay, by
such as the said President and College shall authorise as aforesaid, so
that the same Fine and Amerciament be not at any one time above the sum
of xx li. the Moiety thereof to be employed to the use of our Sovereign
Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, the other Moiety unto the said
President and College: all which forfeitures to be recovered by Action
of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of the Queen’s, her Heirs
and Successor’s Courts of Record, against any such Warden, Gaoler or
Keeper so offending; in which Suit no Essoin, Wager of Law, nor
Protection shall be allowed nor admitted for the Defendant.
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