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†Forasmuch as the pains of breaking of lawburrows has been negligently taken up in times past by reason that the party offended to received no commodity by the pursuit of the action, therefore it is statute and ordained by our sovereign lord, with advice of his three estates of this present parliament, that the pains of breaking of lawburrows to be found in time coming shall be equally divided, the one half to our sovereign lord's use and the other half to pertain to the party offended to who shall have action to pursue for that.