Actions on penal Statutes
37 Actions on penal Statutes
All actions, suits, and other proceedings for any forfeiture upon any statute penal whereby the forfeiture or benefit is limited to His Majesty, or His Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall be commenced within 2 years after the offence committed.
All actions, suits, and other proceedings for any forfeiture upon any statute penal whereby the forfeiture or benefit is limited to His Majesty, or His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and to any person who prosecutes in that behalf, shall be commenced by any such person within one year after the offence committed, and in default thereof may be commenced by His Majesty, his heirs and successors at any time within 2 years after that year ended.
All actions, suits, and other proceedings for any forfeiture upon any statute penal whereby the forfeiture or benefit is limited to any person who shall prosecute in that behalf, shall be commenced by such person within one year after the offence committed.
Any action, suit, or other proceeding brought after such times respectively shall be void and of no effect.
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