The staiute of 31st Elizabeth, ch. 5, is in force in this State, and bars the Plaintiff's right of action.*
From Northampton.
The statute of 31st Elizabeth, ch. 5, limiting the time for bringing qni tam actions, is in force in this State.
This was an action of debt, to recover the penally given by the act of 1741, ch. 11, to restrain the taking of usurious interest upon money loaned. The usury was received on the 15th of May, J80G, and the writ in this *54case was sued out on the 9th of December, 1807. The Defendant pleaded, among other pleas in bar, the stat. of 31,st Eliz. ch.* 5, limiting the time within which actions qui tarn shall be brought; and the Jury found for the Plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court, whether that statute of Elizabeth be in force in this state ? The. question was sent to this Court; and,
The staiute of 31st Elizabeth, ch. 5, is in force in this State, and bars the Plaintiff's right of action.*