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A Treatise of the laws of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also in the original and beginning of forests
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Cap. i 6 . the Forest JLawsv 26 \

At appeared bx there words, Ec rile, cojus Cani* io-'venmi fueric tune non cxpedicatus, det pro roisericordiatres solidos, that it must be found bx the inquistrion anbview of the Regarders of the Forest, what manner ofdog it is that is so keptunexpeditated ; for, if it de nora msstide,the owner thereof is not chargeable to pax thesard t! ?ee fviilings, neither is the tame dog to deexpe-dilated bx the assifes of the Forest. And likewise it mustbe found, who is the proper owner of the tame dog, so?he on!x is chargeable to pax the said Z. lhillings. And,asSyaster Hc*kec laith, the fame z r. lhall delebiedand ga-thei ed of the owners of such makide,upon the certikcateof their inquirx,and blew of record. And faith also,that Hk incipit ieif in case the Negarders of the Forest bx their biew and ^estcur-j-moaPresentment, do 6nd and present one mastibe kept with.in the Forest, which is not hamhled no? etpedttated ac- ''

cording to the Laws of the Fo?est ; and thex fax also,quod ignorant cujur Csnik ille ek, this is a bold Prefent-ment,vecaufe that $ owner of such a Lyastibe is not here-in found and prefemed.Wut xer neberthelefs,fuch a doglhall be taken awax bx the Dsticers of the Forest, andcarried clean out of the Forest: Wut if such a dog hadedone hurt unto the wild beasts of the FoM,then he thatbarb kept fuchZ dog is answerable so? the fame r Andif anx person do claim the fame dog bx action of Tres-pass, or Replevin, or otherwise bx matter of record, andthe fame tried, and tverebx probed to be his dog thatdoth fa claim him, then upon rh-it rrial,and the first pre-sentment,the fame owner lhall de forced to pax unto theWing three shillings so? the kwping of the fame dog un-expeditared within the Forest.

And if the Regnrders do 6nd and present one dog, orsupra, Mich is the dog of one John at S:ile, that is agood presentment, and the stub John at Stile cannot dis-claim, nor fax that the Ame is not his dog general!?.

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