[1612/10/10]¹

An act declaring that in all time hereafter the objecting of horning for a civil cause of the party either slain or mutilated shall be no liberation of the offender from the punishment due of the law

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, statues that if any of his subjects be mutilated or slain, being at the horn only for civil causes, the slayer being pursued or such as are art or part of the said crimes of slaughter or mutilation before the justice general, his deputes or any other ordinary judge, no allegiance found upon the party slain or mutilated, their being at the horn for any civil cause, shall either prevent process or be a defence to delay process or procure impunity to any of the offenders guilty of the crimes foresaid; and this act to have force, effect and execution for all such crimes above-specified as shall be hereafter committed only.