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Chapter XIV. — Of Appeals. 



' Art. 1. Appeals from Gruries cannot be carried directly 

 te the Marble Table ; but they must necessarily pass 

 through the Maitrise, where they shall be at once defini- 

 tively settled. 



' 2. They shall be sent up or remitted, and prosecuted 

 within a fortnight after sentence is pronounced, otherwise 

 the sentence shall be executed provisionally ; and a month 

 being allowed to pass without appeal or further prosecution 

 of the case, this sentence shall have the force of a matter 

 decided in the Court of Final Appeal. 



' 3. Appeals from Forest- Masters shall be carried imme- 

 diately to the Courts of our Marble Table within a month 

 after the sentence has been pronounced or notified to the 

 parties, and it shall be put in a state to be adjudged 

 within three months from the pronouncing or announce- 

 ment of the sentence, otherwise the sentence shall be 

 carried out as final whether there have been an appeal or 

 not ; to which effect we enjoin on the Judges of the Marble 

 Table that they shall be charged to make a report within 

 one month, as covering all delay, after they have disposed of 

 them, under pain of being themselves responsible. 



'4. Always, if the sentence contain any punishment, 

 personal or infamous, the right of appeal shall not expire 

 for twenty years, but after the expiry of the aforesaid 

 three months it shall be executed in regard to pecuniary 

 penalties and civil condemnations, without being open to 

 any change in regard to these. 



' 5 Appeals by the Grand-Masters or their Lieutenants 

 from the Marble Table cannot be carried elsewhere than 

 to our Courts of Parliament ; and We will that the time 

 for carrying and decidinj^ these shall be the same, both in 

 civil and criminal cases, as has been prescribed for Forest- 

 Masters; otherwise that the sentences be executed in the 

 form and manner settled in the preceding article. 



' 6. All interlocutory judgments pronounced by the 



