Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

COMMON LAW PROCEDURE AMENDMENT ACT (IRELAND) 1853

C A P. CXIII.

An Act to amend the Procedure in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland. [20th August 1853.]

Whereas it is expedient to simplify and amend the Course of Procedure as to the Process, Practice, Pleadings, and Evidence in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland, so as to make the same less dilatory and expensive, and to prevent substantial Justice from being defeated by reason of the Variety of Forms of Action, and the Technicalities and Prolixity of Pleadings, and the unnecessary Length of Records, and to consolidate the Provisions of several Statutes and Rules of Court relating to such Proceedings:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’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, as follows: