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Ejectments.
Power to determine disputes respecting possession of land in certain cases.
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79. The several assistant barristers, and the recorder of Dublin, and the several recorders herein mentioned, shall and they are hereby authorized and empowered to hear and determine within their respective jurisdictions all disputes and differences respecting the possession of any lands, tenements or hereditaments held under any grant, lease, or other instrument for any term or interest the duration or extent whereof when originally granted or created did not or shall not exceed three lives, without any provision for the renewal thereof, or a term of sixty-one years determinable on three lives, or three lives with a concurrent term of years not exceeding sixty-one years, or a term of sixty-one years absolute, and the yearly rent reserved or payable in respect whereof under such grant, lease, or other instrument shall not exceed [1
thirty] pounds, and in respect of which no fine exceeding [1
thirty] pounds shall appear on the face of such grant, lease, or other instrument to have been paid on the granting or execution of such grant, lease, or other instrument, . . . or held for any term or tenancy from year to year at a rent not exceeding such amount as aforesaid; and every person claiming such possession may proceed by civil bill in the court for the division of the county or riding wherein such lands, tenements, or hereditaments or any part thereof shall be situate, for recovery of such possession.
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