Chancery Amendment Act, 1858

Questions ordered to be tried by jury to be reduced into writing, &c.

4. Any question of fact and any question as to the amount of damages which shall be so ordered to be tried by a jury before the Court itself shall be reduced into writing in such form as the Court shall direct; and at the trial the jury shall be sworn to try the said question, and a true verdict to give thereon according to the evidence; and upon every such trial the Court of Chancery shall have the same powers, jurisdiction, and authority, as belong to any judge of any of the said Superior Courts sitting at Nisi Prius.