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Interpretation of terms.
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3. In the construction of this Act the following words and expressions shall have the force and meaning hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant thereto :
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The word “person” or “party” shall extend to and include any body politic, corporate, or collegiate, whether aggregate or sole, and any public company :
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The word “lands” shall include houses, messuages, and tenements, and premises, whether corporeal or incorporeal; and the word “premises” shall include lands, houses, and tenements, corporeal or incorporeal :
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The word “county” shall extend to and include a county of a city, a county of a town, a town, a city, a borough, and a riding of a county :
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The word “decree” shall include a dismiss, or any renewal of a decree or dismiss, or any order of the civil bill courts for the payment of money, or any warrant, or any “order” for, or “writ of restitution,” issuing out of or awarded by such courts :
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The word “defendant” shall mean also the person or party whose goods, or chattels may be liable to be taken under any decree, dismiss, renewal, or order of the civil bill courts :
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The word “bailiff” shall mean any bailiff duly appointed by the sheriff under and in pursuance of this Act, and shall include any person assisting the sheriff, under sheriff, or such bailiff, with the authority and in the presence of such sheriff, under sheriff, or bailiff, in the execution of any decree, dismiss, renewal, order, writ, or warrant of the civil bill courts :
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The expression “civil bill court” shall mean the court for the hearing of civil bill causes held in the several counties of Ireland :
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The expressions “chairman of the court of quarter sessions,” “chairman of the county,” and “chairman” shall include the judge of the court for hearing civil bill causes for such county,
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The expression “clerk of the peace” shall include the acting or deputy clerk of the peace, registrar, or other officer of the county or recorders courts, lawfully discharging the duties of a clerk of the peace, either in a county, county of a city, or county of a town :
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The word “sheriff” shall include the “under sheriff”; and in borough civil bill courts, where an officer of such courts, and not the sheriff, has now by law the execution of the decrees of such courts, shall include and mean such officer :
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The expression “process of the court” shall include any decree, dismiss, renewal, order, or writ, or other proceeding of the civil bill courts :
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The word “plaintiff” shall include, in addition to the plaintiff in any decree, such person as may by any decree, order, or writ of the civil bill court be entitled to receive the possession of any land, chattel, or money.
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