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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1773

certified, under the Hand of the Judge who tried such Cause, upon the Back of the Record of Nisi Prius (on such Facts being suggested on the Record or Judgement Roll), a Judgement or Nonsuit shall be entered thereon against the Plaintiff, and the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall pay to the Defendant or Defendants, in such Action, his or their Costs of Suit; and the Defendant and Defendants shall have like Remedy to recover the same as in the Case of a Verdict given for the Defendant or Defendants in such Action; and, in the Taxation of all Costs allowed and given to the Defendant or Defendants by and in pursuance of this Act, the proper Officer shall allow to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, out of the Defendant's Costs, the full Sum given by the Verdict to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs for his or their Debt or Damages; and, although no Judgement shall be entered for the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs upon such Verdict, yet nevertheless such Verdict, without any Judgement entered thereon, shall be an effectual Bar to any Action or Actions commenced by the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs for the same.

"3. And whereas by an Act made in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King Henry the Eighth, intituled. An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Dominion and Principality of Wales, it is (amongst other Things) enacted, That there shall be holden and kept Sessions, twice in every Year, in every of the Shires of the said Dominion and Principality of Wales, the which Sessions shall be called the King's Great Sessions in Wales; and that the Justice of Chester, shall hold and keep Sessions, twice in every Year, in the Shires of Denbigh, Flint, and Montgomery; and likewise that the Justice of North Wales shall hold and keep Sessions, twice in every Year, in the Shires of Caernarvon, Merioneth, and Anglesey; and also that one Person, learned in the Laws of this Realm, by the King's Majesty to be named and appointed, shall be Justice of the Shires of Radnor, Brecknock, and Glamorgan; and shall likewise hold and keep Sessions, twice in every Year, in every of the same Shires; and likewise that one other Person, learned in the Laws of this Realm, to be appointed as aforesaid, shall be Justice of the Shires of Caermarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan, and shall in like wise hold and keep Sessions, twice in every Year, in every of the same Shires; and that the said Persons, or Justices, and every of them, then being, or that thereafter shall be, shall have several Letters Patents and Commissions for their Offices under the King's Great Seal of England, to be exercised by