Section III

III. And whereas it is expedient to make provisions for supporting Coroner's Inquisitions and for preventing the same from being quashed on account of technical defects: It is therefore hereby enacted, that no Inquisition found upon or by and Inquest of any of the said Coroners, nor any Judgment recorded upon or by virtue of any such Inquisition shall be quashed, stayed, or reversed for want of the averment therein, of any matter unnecessary to be proved, nor for the omission of the words "with force and arms," or of the words against the form of the Statute," or for the omission or insertion of any other words or expressions of mere form or surplusage, nor for the insertion of the words "upon their oath," instead of the words "upon their oaths," nor for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed when time is not of the essence of the offence, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor because any person or persons mentioned in any such Inquisition is or are designated by a name of office or other descriptive appellation instead of his, her or their proper name or names, nor by reason of the non-instead of his, her or their proper name or names, nor by reason of the non-insertion of the names of the Jurors in the body of any such Inquisition, or of any difference in the spelling of the names of any of the Jurors in the body of any such Inquisition and the names subscribed thereto, nor because any Juror or Jurors shall have set his or their mark or marks to any such Inquisition instead of subscribing his or their name or names thereto, nor because any such mark or marks is or are unattested, provided that the name or names of such Juror or Jurors is or are set forth, nor because any Juror or Jurors has or have signed his or their Christian name or names or other name or names which is not or are not a family name or names by means of an initial or partial signature only, and not at full length, nor because of any erasures or interlineations appearing in any such Inquisition, unless the same shall be proved to have been made therein after the same was signed, nor (except only in cases of murder or manslaughter) for or by reason of any such Inquisition not being duly sealed or written upon parchment, nor by reason of any such Inquisition having been taken before any Deputy instead of the Coroner himself, nor because the Coroner any Jury did not all view the body at one and the same instant, provided that they all viewed the body at one and the same instant, and in all or any such cases of technical defect as are hereinbefore mentioned, it shall be lawful for any Judge of Her Majesty's Supreme Court at the Presidency at which such Inquest shall have been held, if he shall so think fit, upon the occasion of any such Inquisition being called in question before him, to order the same to be amended in any of the respects aforesaid, and the same shall forthwith be amended accordingly.