Deeds Act 1696 (repealed)

Our Soveraign Lord understanding the great trouble and inconveniency the Leidges are put to in finding out of clauses and passages in long Contracts Decreits Dispositions Extracts Transumpts and other Securities consising of many sheets battered togither which must be either folded or rolled togither Doth for remeid therof with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statute and Ordain that it shall be free hereafter for any person who hath any Contract Decreit Disposition or other Security above mentioned to write to choose whither he will have the same written in Sheets battered togither as formerly or to have them written by way of book in Leafs of Paper either in folio or quarto Provideing that if they be written bookways every page be marked by the number first second &c. and Signed as the margines were before and that the end of the last page make mention how many pages are therin contained in which page only witnesses are to signe in writts and Securities where witnesses are required by Law And which writts and Securities being written bookwayes marked and signed as said is His Majestie with consent forsaid declares to be als valid and formall as if they were written on severall Sheets battered togither and signed on the margine according to the present custome.