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An Act for the further Prevention of the Sale and Brokerage of Offices.{1}
[20th June 1809] 1551 c.16
WHEREAS an Act passed in the fifth and sixth year of the reign of King Edward
the Sixth, intituled "The Sale of Offices Act, 1551": And Whereas it was in
and by the said Act enacted, amongst other things, that if any person or
persons at any time thereafter bargained or sold any office or offices or
deputation of any office or offices, or any part or parcel of any of them, or
received, had, or took any money, fee, reward, or any other profit, directly
or indirectly, or took any promise, agreement, covenant, bond, or any
assurance to receive or have any money, fee, reward, or other profit, directly
or indirectly, for any office or offices, or for the deputation of any office
or offices, or any part of any of them, or to the intent that any person
should have, exercise, or enjoy any office or offices, or the deputation of
any office or offices, or any part of any of them, which office or offices, or
any part or parcel of them, should in anywise touch or concern the
administration or execution of justice, or the receipt, controlment, or
payment of any of the King's Highness treasure, money, rent, revenue, account,
aulnage, auditorship, or surveying of any of the King's Majesty's honors,
castles, manors, lands, tenements, woods, or hereditaments, or any of the
King's Majesty's customs, or any other administration or necessary attendance
to be had, done, or executed in any of the King's Majesty's custom house or
houses, or the keeping of any of the King's Majesty's towns, castles, or
fortresses, being used, occupied, or appointed for places of strength and
defence, or which should concern or touch any clerkship to be occupied in any
manner of court of record wherein justice was to be ministered, that then all
and every such person and persons that should so bargain or sell any of the
said office or offices, deputation or deputations, or that should take any
money, fee, reward, or profit for any of the said office or offices,
deputation or deputations of any of the said offices, or any part of any of
them, or that should take any promise, covenant, bond, or assurance for any
money, reward, or profit to be given for any of the said office or offices,
deputation or deputations of any of the said office or offices, or any part of
any of them, should not only lose and forfeit all his and their right,
interest, and estate which such person or persons should then have of, in, or
to any of the said office or offices, deputation or deputations, or any part
of any of them, or of, in, or to the gift or nomination of any of the said
office or offices, deputation or deputations, for the which office or offices,
or for the deputation or deputations of which offices, or for any part of any
of them, any such person or persons should so make any bargain or sale, or
take or receive any sum of money, fee, reward, or profit, or any promise,
covenant, or assurance to have or receive any fee, reward, money, or profit,
but also that all and every such person or persons that should give or pay any
sum of money, reward, or fee, or should make any promise, agreement, bond, or
assurance for any of the said offices, or for the deputation or deputations of
any of the said office or offices, or any part of any of them, should
immediately by and upon the same fee, money, or reward given or paid, or upon
any such promise, covenant, bond, or agreement had or made for any fee, sum of
money, or reward to be paid as is aforesaid, be adjudged a disabled person in
the law to all intents and purposes, to have, occupy, or enjoy the said office
or offices, deputation or deputations, or any part of any of them, for the
which such person or persons should so give or pay any sum of money, fee, or
reward, or make any promise, covenant, bond, or other assurance to give or pay
any sum of money, fee, or reward; and that all and every such bargains, sales,
promises, bonds, agreements, covenants, and assurances as before specified
should be void to and against him and them by whom any such bargain, sale,
bond, promise, covenant, or assurance should be had or made: And whereas it
was in the said Act provided that the said Act or anything therein contained
should not in anywise extend to any office or offices whereof any person or
persons was or should be seised of any estate of inheritance, nor to any
office of parkership, or of the keeping of any park, house, manor, garden,
chase, or forest, or to any of them: And whereas it was by the said Act
further provided, that if any person or persons did thereafter offend in
anything contrary to the tenor and effect of the said Act, yet that
notwithstanding all judgments given, and all other act and acts executed or
done by any such person or persons so offending, by authority or colour of the
office or deputation which ought to be forfeited or not occupied or not
enjoyed by the person so offending, after the said offence so by such person
committed or done, and before such person so offending for the same offence
should be removed from the exercise, administration, and occupation of the
said office or deputation, should be and remain good and sufficient in law to
all intents, constructions, and purposes, in such like manner and form as the
same would or ought to have remained and been if this Act had never been had
or made: And whereas it was by the said Act further provided, that the said
Act, or anything therein contained, should not in anywise extend, or be
prejudicial or hurtful to any of the chief justices of the King's courts,
commonly called the King's Bench or Common Place, or to any of the justices of
assize, that then were or thereafter should be, but that they and every of
them might do in every behalf touching or concerning any office or offices to
be given or granted by them or any of them, as they or any of them might have
done before the making of the said Act:[
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