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Actions again sheriffs. &c.
Treble costs.
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35. If any action upon the case, trespass, battery, or false imprisonment shall be brought against any such sheriff as aforesaid, or any other person or persons who in his aid or assistance or by his commandment shall do any thing touching his aforesaid office, or for or concerning any matter, cause, or thing by them or any of them done by reason thereof, and if upon such trial a verdict shall be had for such defendant or defendants, or if the defendant or defendants shall have judgment upon demurrer, or if the plaintiff or plaintiffs therein shall be nonsuited or suffer any discontinuance thereof, that in every such case the defendant or defendants shall have his or their treble costs, which he or they shall have sustained by reason of such action or suit, for which the said defendant or defendants shall have the like remedy as in other cases where costs by law are given to the defendant [Rep. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97. s. 2.]
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