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provides for how the pleas of (what are currently known as) autrefois acquit and autrefois convict are now to be entered. These historical Norman French phrases literally translate to "I have been acquitted" and "I have been convicted." Consistent with the goal of modernising historical language, this clause instead refers to a plea of previous conviction or previous acquittal. The principles to be applied to such pleas are purely common law and are expressly saved.