Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ Decimo quinto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Dublin, the sixteenth day of March in the fifteenth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, defender of the Faith, &c. To the high pleasure of Almighty God, and to the weal publick of this realm, were enacted, as followeth.

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Title: Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ Decimo quinto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Dublin, the sixteenth day of March in the fifteenth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, defender of the Faith, &c. To the high pleasure of Almighty God, and to the weal publick of this realm, were enacted, as followeth.
Author: Ireland.
Publication: Dublin :: printed by Benjamin Tooke, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer book-seller in Castle-street,; 1669.
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CHAP. I. An Act to admit the Subject to plead the General Issue in Informations of Intru∣sion brought on the behalf of the Kings Majestie, and to retain his possession till Tryal.

WHere the Kings Majestie out of his Prerogative Royal, may enforce the Subject in Informations of Intrusion brought against him to a special pleading of his title, the Kings most Excellent Majestie out of his Gracious Disposition to∣wards his loving Subjects, and at their humble suit being willing to remit a part of his ancient and Regal power, is well pleased that it be Enacted, And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That whensoever the King, his Heirs or Successors and such from or under whom the King claimeth, and all others claiming under the same ti∣tle, under which the King claimeth, hath been or shall be out of possession by the space of twenty years, or hath not, or shall not have taken the profits of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, within the space of twenty years before any Information of Intrusion brought, or to be brought to recover the same: that in every such case, the Defendant or the Defendants may plead the General Issue, if he or they so think fit, and shall not be pressed to plea•• specially, and that in such cases the Defendant or Defendants shall reta••n the possession he or they had at the time of such Information exhibited, u••til the title be tryed, found, or Adjudged for the King. And be it further E••act∣ed, That where an Information of Intrusion may fitly and aptly be brought on the Kings behalf, that no Scire facias shall be brought, whereunto the Subject shall be forced to a special pleading, and be deprived of the Grace in∣tended by this Act.