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Commons. Chancellor. The commons request, in order to prevent undue delays to writs,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/335/15823

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Reference
SC 8/335/15823
Date
[1327-1377]
Description
Petitioners
Commons.
Addressees
Chancellor.
Nature of request
The commons request, in order to prevent undue delays to writs, that it be ordained by statute that in all writs in which there is vouching, that if the defendant vouches to warranty a certain person and the claimant will swear by peers or otherwise, that neither the vouchee nor any of his ancestors should have anything in the claimed land, and that the voucher should continue to take the profits of the said lands, and the averment should be received between them if the voucher will wait for it, and if not, then the voucher should put forward another response.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. III, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LVIII, 1939), p.cxxi (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736207/

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