The Petitions of Right Act 1860
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to Petitions of Right, to simplify the Procedure therein, to make Provision for the Recovery of Costs in such Cases, and to assimilate the Proceedings, as nearly as may be, to the Course of Practice and Procedure now in force in Actions and Suits between Subject and Subject: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliam...