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On default of twelve jurors, others summoned.
Liberty of calling witnesses.
Commissioners may authorize jury to view grounds, &c.
Power of adjournment.
Notice to be given.
Judgments to be written on parchment.
Proceedings to be registered.
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19. In all cases of trials by juries before the said commissioners, where a full jury shall not appear before them, or where after the appearance of a full jury it shall so happen, either by means of challenges or otherwise, that there shall be a default of twelve jurors for such trial, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, to command the sheriff of the county, county of a city or county of a town, to empannel so many other persons as shall make up a full jury of twelve men, which persons so to be empannelled shall be added to the former pannel; and all parties interested in such trials shall have their challenges to the jurors so added to the former pannel as if they had been originally summoned; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered by precept or precepts, from time to time, as occasion shall require, to call before them all and every person and persons whatsoever who shall be thought proper or necessary to be examined as a witness or witnesses before them, on their oath or oaths, touching or concerning the premises; and the said commissioners, if they shall think fit, shall and may likewise authorize and require the said jury to view the said grounds, houses, tenements or buildings intended to be valued or purchased; and the said commissioners shall have power to adjourn such meeting from day to day and place to place, as occasion shall require, and to command such jury, witnesses and parties to attend, until the business for which they shall be so summoned by virtue of this Act shall be concluded; and the said jury shall upon their oaths (which oaths, as also the oaths to such person or persons as shall be called upon to give evidence, the said commissioners are hereby required and empowered to administer) fairly, truly and impartially inquire of the value of such grounds, houses, tenements, and buildings, and of the respective estate, right, title, term, and interest of every person or persons seised or possessed thereof, or interested therein, or of or in any part thereof, and shall assess or award the sum or sums to be paid to every such person or persons for the purchase of such their respective estates, rights, titles, terms, and interests, and shall also enquire, ascertain and find all and all manner of charges and incumbrances and liens thereon, and the amount of the sum or sums due thereon respectively, and what estate and estates therein are subject to any such lien or charge; and the said commissioners shall and may give judgment for such sum and sums so to be assessed as and for the value of the said several estates in the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and for the payment thereof respectively in manner herein-after mentioned; which said verdict or verdicts, and the said judgment, decree or determination thereupon (notice in writing being first given to the person or persons interested, at least fourteen days before the time of the first meeting of the said jury, declaring the time and place of such meeting of the commissioners and jury, by leaving such notice at the dwelling-house of such person or persons, or at his, her, or their usual place or places of abode, or with some tenant or occupier of the houses, buildings or ground intended to be valued or assessed, in case such party shall not be known or cannot be found in the county, county of a city or county of a town, and also in the “Dublin Gazette”) shall be binding and conclusive to all intents and purposes whatsoever, against all bodies politic or corporate, infants, lunatics, idiots, femes covert, and persons under any legal disability, and against all and every person and persons whatsoever, his, her, or their heirs, successors, executors, and administrators having or claiming to have or claim any estate, right, trust, use, or interest in, to, or out of the said grounds, houses, tenements, buildings and premises, either in possession or reversion, remainder or expectancy, or in any manner whatsoever, or any charge, lien, or incumbrance thereon; which said verdicts, judgments, and decrees, and all other proceedings of the said commissioners, and such judgments to be made, given and pronounced as aforesaid, shall be fairly written on parchment, and signed and sealed by the major part of the said commissioners who were present and pronounced such judgments and decrees; and all verdicts of the said juries, and all judgments, decrees, orders and other proceedings of the said commissioners, shall be entered in the Rolls Office of His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and the same or true copies thereof shall be deemed and taken to be good evidence thereof in any court of law or equity whatsoever.
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