Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act, Ireland 1860

Where lands are situate in two or more counties, proceedings may be taken in either.

98. In case any lands or premises respecting which any proceeding by way of civil bill shall be brought under this Act shall be situate partly in two or more counties, such proceeding by way of civil bill may be brought in any or either of them; and the sheriffs of the respective counties in which any part of such lands or premises shall be situate shall, so far as relates to the portion of the premises within their respective jurisdictions, execute such decree as may be made, on delivery to each of them of a copy of such decree, signed by the chairman who shall have made the same: Provided, that where any lands shall be situate partly or wholly within a place which is a county of a city or county of a town of itself (except the county of the City of Dublin), the assistant barrister of the county at large and the justices of the peace of the said county at large shall have the same jurisdiction and exercise the like powers respecting such premises as if the same had been situate in the county at large.