ABSTRACT
Whereas by an act passed in this kingdom, in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act to prevent and punish tumultuous risings of persons within this kingdom, and for other purposes therein mentioned; it is enacted, That persons receiving injury and damage, as therein mentioned, in their persons, habitations, possessions, property, goods or chattels, may sue for and recover satisfaction and amends for the injury, loss, or damage incurred or suffered, at the next assizes for the county where such offence was committed, in manner as therein directed: and whereas assizes are never holden in the county of Dublin, or county of the city of Dublin, and therefore persons sustaining such injuries, losses and damages in the said counties, in manner mentioned in the said recited act, are, and have been without the remedy intended for them by the said act: for remedy thereof, be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all persons who, by virtue of the said recited act, would be entitled to receive satisfaction and amends for such injuries and damages within the county of Dublin, and county of the city of Dublin, by presentment of the grand juries of the said counties respectively, shall and may, at the next presenting term in the King’s-bench, after the offence committed, by exhibiting to the said court of King’s-bench, such petition as is by the said recited act required to be exhibited to the judge or judges of assize, have compensation made to them for such loss 300or damages, as they shall respectively have sustained, within the meaning of the said recited act; and in examining, directing, and acting on such petition, the court of King’s-bench shall have and exercise the same authority, as is by the said recited act given to the judge or judges of assize; and the grand juries of the said two counties are hereby required to make presentments upon such petitions respectively, in like manner as the grand juries at assizes are by the said act required to make presentment in their counties.
