Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

Actions to be commenced by Writ of Summons and Plaint

VIII. All such Personal Actions, whether brought by or against any Person entitled to the Privilege of Peerage or of Parliament, or of the Court in which the Action shall be brought, or of any other Court, or to any other Privilege, or by or against any Corporation or incorporated Body or Company, or by or against any other Persons, shall be commenced by a Writ of Summons and Plaint, according to the Form marked No. 1. in the Schedule B. to this Act annexed, and which shall be called a “Writ of Summons and Plaint,” and shall be authenticated by the Common Seal of the said Superior Courts, to be thereunto set by the Clerk of the Writs, who shall not be required to sign such Writ, but shall enter the Particulars thereof in the Book to be kept for that Purpose, at the Time of sealing thereof, and such Writ shall bear Date of the Day on which it shall be sealed, and may be sued out at any Time, notwithstanding any Privilege.