Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840

XIIAppeal to the Police Magistrates from Proceedings at the Leet concerning Weights and Measures.

And be it enacted, That all Persons who may think themselves aggrieved by any Presentment or Proceeding of any Leet Jury or Court Leet for any Hundred or Manor within the Metropolitan Police District, or of any Person or Persons appointed at any such Court Leet, with respect to examining or regulating, seizing, breaking, or destroying, any Weights, Balances, or Measures, may, within Fourteen Days next after such Presentment or Proceeding, appeal to any One of the Magistrates of the Metropolitan Police Courts, first giving Seven Days Notice in Writing of such Intention to appeal, and of the Grounds and Nature thereof, to the Steward of the Court, or to such other Party against whom the Complaint is intended to be made, and forthwith" after such Notice entering into a Recognizance before One of the said Magistrates, conditioned to try the Appeal, and abide the Order and Award of the Court thereon ; and the Magistrate attending at the Court to which the Appeal shall be brought shall appoint a Time for the Hearing of such Appeal; and the Magistrate by whom the Appeal shall be heard may, if he see Cause, mitigate any Penalty or Forfeiture, and may order any Money to be returned which may have been levied in pursuance of such Presentment or Proceeding, and also any further Satisfaction to be made to the Party injured as he shall judge reasonable, and also Costs to be paid to the Party aggrieved, the said Satisfaction and Costs to be paid, by the Steward of the said Court out of the first Monies coming to his Hands, being the Produce of any Fines imposed by the Leet Jury ; and it shall not be lawful to distrain or proceed in any Manner for the Recovery of any Fine or Amerciament imposed by any such Court Leet, or assessed by any such Jury, against which Notice of such Appeal shall have been given, until after the Judgment or Order of the Magistrate upon the Appeal, and then only for so much as shall be allowed upon such Appeal.