WALES. By statute 27 Henry VIII. c. 26, and other subsequent statutes, the dominion of Wales shall be incorporated with, and part of the realm of England ; and all persons born in Wales shall enjoy all liberties and privileges as the subjects in England do. And the lands in Wales shall be inheritable after the English te nure, and not after any Welsh laws or customs ; and the proceedings in all the law courts shall be hi the English tongue.
A session is also to be held twice a in every county, by judges appointed by the King, to be called the Great Sessions' of the several counties in Wales, in which all pleas of real and personal actions shall be held, with the same form of process, and in as ample manner, as in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster ; and writs of error shall lie from judgments therein to the Court of King's Bench at Westminster. But the ordinary original writs, or process, of the King's courts at Westminster, do not run into the princi pality of Wales, though process of exe cution does, as also all prerogative writs ; as, writs of certiorari, quo minus, man damus, and the like. Murders and felo
nies in any part may be tried in the next adjoining English county; the judges of assize having a concurrent ju risdiction throughout all Wales, with the justices of the grand sessions. All local matters arising in Wales, triable in the King's Bench, are, by the common to be tried by a jury, returned from the next adjoining county in England. No sheriff or officer in Wales shall, upon any process out of the courts at Westminster, hold any person to special bail, unless the cause of action be twenty pounds, or up wards. 11 and 12 William, c. 9.