Ch. 13.
of Persons.
421
3. With regard to the privileges conferred on ſailors, they are pretty much the ſame with thoſe conferred on ſoldiers; with regard to relief, when maimed, or wounded, or ſuperannuate, either by county rates, or the royal hoſpital at Greenwich; with regard alſo to the exerciſe of trades, and the power of making nuncupative teſtaments: and, farther[1], no ſeaman aboard his majeſty's ſhips can be arreſted for any debt, unleſs the ſame be ſworn to amount to at leaſt twenty pounds; though, by the annual mutiny act, a ſoldier may be arreſted for a debt which extends to half that value, but not to a leſs amount.
- ↑ Stat. 1 Geo II. ſt. 2. c. 14.
