By _27 H. 8. c. 24._ § 9. the King, his heirs and successors, shall have
all manner of fines, issues, amerciaments and forfeitures that shall be
lost, forfeit or assessed by or upon any stewards, bailiffs or other
ministers or officers of any franchises or liberties, for non-execution,
mis-execution or insufficient returns of such writs, warrants, precepts
or other process, which to them or to their deputies shall be directed,
or for any contempt or other misdemeanor whatsoever it be, concerning
their offices, in and for the due execution or administration of justice.
And the amerciaments for insufficient returns of writs or other process
made by stewards or bailiffs of liberties or franchises, having returns
of writs and execution of the same, shall be put and set upon the heads
of such stewards or bailiffs, and not upon the sheriffs[53].
[Sidenote: Acts against sheriffs extended to bailiffs.]
By § 14. every statute and act theretofore made and being in force
against sheriffs, their undersheriffs, bailiffs or other ministers, for
making or returning of panels or juries, or for due execution or serving
of any writs or other process, or for taking of fees, or for reformation
of extortions, or for any other thing or things concerning their offices,
and all pains and penalties contained in every such statute shall be
extended to all stewards, bailiffs and other ministers and officers of
liberties and franchises having returns of writs and executions thereof,
in like manner, form and condition as they extend to the sheriffs, their
undersheriffs, bailiffs or other ministers. (But by § 15. this article
not to be prejudicial to any steward, bailiffs of franchises or to their
deputies or clerks for exercising and occupying their offices above one
year.)
[Sidenote: Returning persons not summoned.]
By _27 Eliz. c. 6._ § 3. if any sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff or other
minister do return any person or persons to be summoned to appear in any
jury, wherein he shall for default of his appearance lose or forfeit any
issues, where in truth such person shall not be lawfully summoned, the
same sheriff, &c. shall forfeit, lose and pay unto the said person or
persons so returned double the value of the issues by such juror or
jurors lost or forfeited for his [or their] default of appearance.
[Sidenote: Taking money, _&c._ for not returning jurors.]
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