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A.D. 1697]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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A.D. 1697]
9-10 William 3, c. 16.
An Act to execute Judgments and Decrees saved in a Clause in an Act of the first year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of WALES.

Whereas in a Statute made in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty and the late Queen Mary intituled An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales It is provided That no Judgment nor Decrees passed in the said Court before the First Day of June One Thousand six hundred eighty nine shall be by that Act repealed or annulled but all and every of them shall remain in the same force and all Executions upon them in the same state in which they were before the making of that Act, Any thing in that Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding, But Forasmuch as no Provision is made in the said Act to authorise His Majesty's Courts of Westminster and Great Sessions of Wales or any other Court to order or issue out any Executions upon the said Judgments and Decrees the said Clause is become fruitless and ineffectual to the great and manifest Damage and Injuries of the Parties on whose behalfs such Judgments and Decrees passed, For remedy whereof Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same. That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty's High Court of Chancery Court of Exchequer at Westminster or His Majesty's Court of Great Sessions in the respective Counties within the Principality of Wales where the Cause or Causes originally arose to issue forth Execution or Executions and other Processes upon every Judgment or Decree given or made in the said Court held before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales before the First Day of June in the Year of Our Lord God One thousand six hundred eighty nine in the same Manner and to the same intent and purpose as if such Judgment or Decree had been given or made in either of the said Courts of the Exchequer or Grand Sessions.

2. Provided also And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Courts before mentioned respectively