Crown Debts Act, 1801
CROWN DEBTS ACT 1801 | ||
CHAPTER XC. | ||
An Act for the more speedy and effectual Recovery of Debts due to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, in right of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and for the better Administration of Justice within the same. [2d July 1801.] | ||
When upon any account declared or recorded in the Court of Exchequer in England, or on judgement of that court, any debt shall be due to his Majesty, a copy of such account, &c. shall, on application, be exemplified and transmitted to the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, where it shall be inrolled, and process issued against the debtor’s body and effects there. | ||
FOR the more speedy and effectual recovery of debts due to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in right of the imperial crown of this realm, and for the better administration of justice within the same, be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, from and after the passing of this Act, in all cases where, upon any account duly audited, declared, or recorded in his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, or upon any judgement or decree of the same Court of Exchequer, any debt or duty shall be due to his Majesty his heirs and successors, a copy of such declared account, judgement, or decree, shall upon application to the said court made on behalf of his Majesty his heirs and successors, be forthwith exemplified and transmitted under the seal of the said Court of Exchequer to his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland; which said last mentioned court shall, upon the said copy so exemplified being laid before them, forthwith cause the same to be inrolled in the rolls of the said Court of Exchequer in Ireland; and upon the same being so inrolled, the said court shall cause process to issue for levying and recovering the debt due on such declared account, or for which such judgement or decree shall have been so obtained, as well against the person of the debtor upon such declared account, or against whom such judgement or decree shall have been so obtained, as against his real and personal estate, situate, lying, and being in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as by the course and practice of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer in that part of the said United Kingdom called England is or may be now awarded and issued by the same court. |