The opinion of the judges upon the clause in the Act of 22 & 23 Car. II. Regis cap. 9. for giving no more costs than damages, delivered at Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane, London, in Trinity term. Anno 23. Ejusdem regis

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Title: The opinion of the judges upon the clause in the Act of 22 & 23 Car. II. Regis cap. 9. for giving no more costs than damages, delivered at Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane, London, in Trinity term. Anno 23. Ejusdem regis
Publication: London :: printed for William Canning, at his shop adjoyning to the Temple Cloysters,; 1688.
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The Clause in the Act.

AND for Prevention of trivial and vexatious Suits in Law, whereby many good Sub∣jects of this Realm have been and are daily undone contrary to the intention of an Act made in the 43 year of Queen Eliz. for avoiding of infinite numbers of small and trivial Suits commenced in the Courts at Westminster. Be it farther Enacted for making the said Law Effectual, that from and after the first of May aforesaid, In all Actions of Trespass, Assault and Battery and other personal Actions wherein the Iudge at the Trial of the cause shall not find and certifie under his hand upon the back of the Record, That an Assault and Battery was sufficiently proved by the Plaintiff against the Defendant, or that the Freehold or Title of the Land mentioned in the Plaintiffs Declaration was chiefly in question, The Plain∣tiff in such Action, in case the Iury shall find the Damages to be under the value of forty shillings, shall not recover or obtain more Costs of Suit than the Damages so found shall amount unto. And if any more Costs in any such Action shall be Awarded, The Iudgement shall be void, and the Defendant is hereby acquitted of and from the same, and may have his Action against the Plain∣tiff for such vexatious Suits, and recover his Damages and Costs of such his Suit in any of the said Courts of Record.