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CHANCERY (IRELAND) ACT 1867
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CHAPTER XLIV.
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An Act to amend the Constitution, Practice, and Procedure of the Court of Chancery in Ireland. [15th July 1867.]
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[Preamble.]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Chancery (Ireland) Act, 1867.”
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Interpretation of terms.
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2. In the construction and for the purposes of this Act the following terms shall have the respective meanings herein-after assigned to them (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter); that is to say,
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The expressions “Court of Chancery,” “Chancery,” and “Court” shall mean the Court of Chancery in Ireland :
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The expression “Lord Chancellor” shall mean and include the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, and Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of Ireland :
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The words “Master of the Rolls” shall mean the Master of the Rolls in Ireland :
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The word “suit” shall include cause, matter, or other proceeding:
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The word “affidavit” shall include declaration, affirmation, and attestation upon honour; and the word “swear” shall include declare, affirm, and attest upon honour :
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The word “lunatic” shall include idiots and persons of unsound mind, and whether found such by inquisition or not :
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The words “agent” and “town agent” shall mean an agent or town agent being a practising solicitor.
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Divisions of Act.
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3. This Act shall consist of five parts, relating to :—
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Part I. The appointment of a Vice-Chancellor :
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Part III. Procedure and practice :
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Part V. Miscellaneous matters.
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Part I.
Appointment of a Vice-Chancellor, &c .
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Disqualification for House of Commons.
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4. no Vice-Chancellor appointed under this Act shall during his tenure of office be capable of sitting in the House of Commons.
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[Ss. 5, 6 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Vice-Chancellor to sit for Lord Chancellor.
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7. Every such Vice-Chancellor shall sit for the Lord Chancellor whenever he shall require him so to do.
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Rank and precedence of Vice-Chancellor.
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8. The Vice-Chancellor shall have rank and precedence next after the Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Chancery in Ireland, . . .
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Vice-Chancellor to hold office during good behaviour.
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9. Every Vice-Chancellor shall hold his office during his good behaviour: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to remove any such Vice-Chancellor from his office upon an address of both Houses of Parliament.
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[S. 10 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]
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Appointment of chief clerks.
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11. It shall be lawful for the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor for the time being respectively, with the approbation of the Lord Chancellor, to appoint one chief clerk each, to be respectively attached to the court of each such judge and his successors in office, for the purpose of assisting the judge in business not of a judicial character, and on any vacancy in such office of chief clerk to supply such vacancy.
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Qualification of chief clerks.
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12. No person shall be appointed chief clerk to the Master of the Rolls or to the Vice-Chancellor unless he shall have been admitted on the roll of solicitors . . . and shall have practised as solicitor for the period of ten years at least immediately preceding his appointment, or . . . shall have held some office or offices in the Court of Chancery for a period of seven years.
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Appointment of junior clerks.
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13. It shall be lawful for . . . the Vice-Chancellor . . . to appoint two junior clerks to the chief clerk of his court, and on any vacancy to supply such vacancy.
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Officers under Act not to take fees or profits other than their salaries under pain of removal and disqualification to hold office in the Court.
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14. If any person who shall accept any office under this Act shall engage in any other employment whatever whilst he holds such office, or shall receive any sum of money or benefit other than his salary, and what may be allowed or directed to be taken by him under any Act of Parliament or order of the said Court, for any act done or pretended to be done, or any attendance given or pretended to be given, either with or without the consent or direction or pretended consent or direction of any judge of the Court, in relation to or arising out of any proceeding in his office or in any office of or connected with the Court of Chancery, or if such person, having been a solicitor, shall directly or indirectly receive or secure to himself any continuing benefit from any business or firm in which he may have been engaged previously to his appointment to such office, the person so offending may be removed from his office by order of the Lord Chancellor, and if so removed shall be rendered incapable of afterwards holding any office, situation, or employment in the said Court.
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Solicitor accepting office to cease to be a solicitor.
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15. Every solicitor who shall be appointed to and shall accept office under this Act shall cease to be . . . solicitor, and shall forthwith procure himself to be struck off the roll of solicitors . . .
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Tenure of office of chief clerks.
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16. Every chief clerk shall, subject to the power of removal herein-after contained, hold his office on the same tenure as an officer serving in an established capacity in the permanent Civil Service of the State; and it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the judge to whose court any chief clerk shall be attached, by an order to remove any such chief clerk, without stating any cause for such removal.
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Tenure of office of junior clerks.
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17. Every junior clerk shall . . . hold his office at the pleasure of the judge to whose court he shall be attached.
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Chief and junior clerks to be under control of the judge to whose court they are attached.
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18. Subject to the regulations which shall be prescribed by the general orders of the Court, the chief clerks and junior clerks shall be under the control of the judge to whose court they shall respectively be attached, and shall attend at such places, during such times, and for such hours in each day, and perform such duties, as such judge shall from time to time direct.
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Chief and junior clerks subject to the same obligations and penalties as officers of the Court under 4 Geo. 4. c. 61
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19. Every chief clerk and every junior clerk shall be subject and liable to such and the same obligations, prohibitions, and penalties, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as are by an Act passed in the session holden in the fourth year of the reign of King George the Fourth enacted with respect to persons holding any of the offices in the Court of Chancery therein specified, in the same manner as if the enactments therein contained relating to such officers of the said Court respectively were here repeated in relation to such chief and junior clerk.
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[S. 20 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Salary of Vice-Chancellor.
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21. There shall be paid to the Vice-Chancellor the net yearly salary of four thousand pounds, which salary shall issue and be payable out of and charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be free from all taxes and deductions, except in respect of income tax, and shall be paid quarterly . . .
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Retiring pension to Vice-Chancellor.
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22. Her Majesty, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, may grant unto any person executing the office of Vice-Chancellor in pursuance of this Act an annuity not exceeding two thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence, to commence immediately after the period when the person to whom such annuity shall be granted shall resign the said office of Vice Chancellor, and to continue from thenceforth during the natural life of the person to whom the same shall be granted; and such annuity shall be issued and payable out of and charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and such annuity shall be paid quarterly, free from all taxes and deductions whatsoever, except income tax . . . : Provided, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, in and by such letters patent, to limit the duration of payment of such annuity or any part thereof to such periods of time during the natural life of such person in which he shall not exercise any office of profit under Her Majesty, so that such annuity, together with the salary and profits of such other office, shall not exceed in the whole the said sum of two thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence: . . .
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[S. 23 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Appointment of court keeper, crier, and tipstaff.
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24. It shall be lawful for the Vice-Chancellor from time to time to appoint a court keeper, crier, and tipstaff, to be attached to his court; . . .
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Provision for appointment, &c ., of a chief clerk to the Lord Chancellor.
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25. If it shall appear to the Lord Chancellor that the business of his court shall render it expedient that a chief clerk . . . should be appointed, to be attached to the Lord Chancellor and his successors in office, for the purpose of assisting the Lord Chancellor in business not of a judicial character and the suits belonging to his court, and in any matters belonging to or reserved for his jurisdiction, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, with the assent of the Treasury, to appoint one chief clerk, having such qualification as is herein-before prescribed in reference to the chief clerks of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor respectively, . . . and on any vacancy in such offices to supply such vacancy; and every chief clerk . . . so to be appointed shall hold his office by the like tenure, and shall have the like powers, and shall be entitled to the like salaries, allowances, and benefits, and shall be subject to the like obligations, prohibitions, and penalties, as a chief clerk . . . attached to the Master of Rolls or the Vice-Chancellor, but shall be under the control of the Lord Chancellor, . . .
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[S. 26 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Part II.
[Ss. 27–40 (as to abolition of office of Master in Ordinary in Chancery) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Appointment, duties, and salary of second assistant registrar.
4 Geo. 4. c. 61.
Regulations and duties of Masters’ officers.
Appointment in case all the Masters’ examiners refuse the office.
Right of succession in registrar's office preserved.
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41. There shall be attached to the said Court a second assistant registrar, who shall hold his office upon the same terms and with such powers in all respects as are provided by a Statute passed in the fourth year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act for the better administration of justice in the Court of Chancery in Ireland,” in relation to the principal registrars of the said Court; and every such assistant registrar shall discharge such duties in connexion with the business of the said Court as shall be assigned to him by general order of the Court; and there shall be paid to every such assistant registrar the net yearly salary of eight hundred pounds, to be increased every year of service by the net annual sum of twenty-five pounds until the net yearly salary of such assistant registrar shall amount to the net yearly salary of one thousand pounds, but so that no such increase shall take place without a certificate of the Lord Chancellor to the like effect as is provided in the case of the chief and junior clerks to be appointed under this Act, which salary shall be paid free from all deductions, except in respect of income tax; [1]
and the Lord Chancellor shall tender to each of the Master's examiners whose office is abolished by this Act according to his seniority in office the option of accepting the said office of assistant registrar; and if such Master's examiner shall for one month after such option has been tendered, neglect or decline to avail himself thereof then the Lord Chancellor shall tender the like option to the examiner next in succession as aforesaid, and so toties quoties; and in case any of the said examiners shall avail himself of the said option,] the Lord Chancellor shall thereupon appoint such person to be an assistant registrar of the Court pursuant to this Act; and the Court shall have power, by general orders, to regulate the distribution of business among the officers of the said Masters, and to attach any officer at present attached to any Master in Ordinary whose office is by this Act abolished to any other Master, and in all respects to prescribe and regulate the duties of such officers; and in case all the Master's examiners shall neglect or decline to avail themselves of the said option, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to appoint the chief clerk or one of the other clerks in the registrar's office, or some fit or proper person, having such qualification as is herein-before prescribed in respect of persons to be appointed chief clerks of the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor, to fill the office of assistant registrar of the said Court pursuant to this Act: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of succession of the officers in the registrar's office, as now established, to any office existing previous to the passing of this Act, and that from time to time when any vacancy shall occur in the said office of assistant registrar there shall be the like right of succession thereto in said officers as there now is to such existing offices.
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[S. 42 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.) Ss. 43–51 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Part III.
[Ss. 52–108 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Deeds and documents referred to in pleadings to be produced on hearings, motions, and other proceedings.
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109. Where any deed or document, or any record, or any portion thereof respectively, shall be relied on in any pleading, the said deed or document, or the copy of such record, shall be produced upon every hearing, or motion, or other proceeding in the said suit, unless its non-production can be satisfactorily excused; and in default thereof it shall be lawful for the Court or judge before whom such hearing, motion, or other proceeding shall take place to exclude the party so in default from all benefit or advantage of the said deed, document, or record, and to make such order for the postponement of such hearing, motion, or other proceeding, and the payment of the costs occasioned by such postponement, as shall seem to be just; and in the event of such deed or document, or the copy of such record, being produced, it shall be lawful for the Court or judge to direct the same to be entered upon the decree or order of the Court to be made upon such hearing, motion, or other proceeding, and to make such consequential order in relation to costs as to them or him shall seem fit.
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[S. 110 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Power to persons interested in questions cognizable in Court of Chancery to state special cases for the opinion of the Court.
Executors, &c . may concur.
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111. It shall be lawful for persons interested or claiming to be interested in any question cognizable in the Court as to the construction of any Act of Parliament, will, deed, or other instrument in writing, or any article, clause, matter, or thing therein contained, or as to the title or evidence of title to any real or personal estate contracted to be sold or otherwise dealt with, or as to the parties to or the form of any deed or instrument for carrying any such contract into effect, or as to any other matter falling within the original jurisdiction of the Court as a court of equity, or made subject to the jurisdiction or authority of the Court by any statute, not being one of the statutes relating to bankrupts, and including among such persons all lunatics, married women, and infants, in the manner and under the restrictions herein-after contained, to concur in stating such question in the form of a special case for the opinion of the said Court; and it shall also be lawful for all executors, administrators, and trustees to concur in such case.
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How lunatics may concur.
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112. The committee of the estate of any lunatic interested or claiming to be interested in any such question as aforesaid may, after having been authorized in that behalf by the Lord Chancellor, concur in such case in his own name and in the name and on the behalf of the lunatic.
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How married women and their husbands may concur.
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113. A husband interested or claiming to be interested in right of his wife in any such question as aforesaid may concur in such case in his own name and in the name of his wife where the wife has no claim to any interest distinct from her husband; and a married woman having or claiming any interest in any such question as aforesaid distinct from her husband may in her own right concur in such case, provided that her husband also concurs therein.
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How infants may concur.
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114. The guardian of any infant interested or claiming to be interested in any such question as aforesaid may concur in such case in the name and on the behalf of the infant, unless such guardian has an interest in such question adverse to the interest of the infant therein.
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Special guardian may be appointed to concur for a lunatic not found such by inquisition, or for an infant.
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115. It shall be lawful for the Court, by order to be made in the matter of any lunatic not found such by inquisition, or in the matter of any infant, upon the application of any person on the behalf of such lunatic, or upon the application of such infant, by motion or petition, to appoint any person shown by affidavit to be a fit person, and to have no interest adverse to the interest of the lunatic or infant, to be the special guardian of such lunatic or infant for the purpose of concurring in such case in the name and on behalf of the lunatic or infant, and any such person so appointed may lawfully so concur: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Court to require notice of such application to be given to such person, if any, as the Court shall think fit.
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Discharge of order to appoint special guardian of an infant, if made without notice to guardian.
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116. In any case in which any such order as aforesaid shall have been made by the Court in the matter of any infant without notice to the guardian of the infant, it shall be lawful for the said Court, if it shall think fit so to do, to discharge such order, upon the application of such guardian, by motion or petition; and the Court, if it shall think fit, may thereupon appoint some other fit person to be the special guardian of such infant for the purpose of such special case, and may also give such directions as may be necessary for substituting in such special case either the name of the guardian so applying, or of the special guardian so appointed, in lieu of the name of the special guardian so displaced: Provided always, that the discharge of any order appointing a special guardian shall not invalidate anything which shall in the meantime have been done by such special guardian, unless the Court shall, upon notice to all parties, specially so direct.
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Special case, how to be intituled, and parties thereto, how to be described.
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117. Every such special case shall be intituled as a cause between some or one of the parties interested or claiming to be interested as plaintiffs or plaintiff, and the others or other of them as defendants or defendant; and in the title to such cases lunatics and infants shall be described as such, and their committees, guardians, or special guardians named; and where in any such case a married woman is named as a plaintiff and her husband as a defendant thereto, a next friend of such married woman shall be named in the title to such case.
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Form of special case.
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118. Every such special case shall concisely state such facts and documents as may be necessary to enable the Court to decide the question raised thereby, and upon the hearing of such case the Court and the parties shall be at liberty to refer to the whole contents of such documents, and the Court shall be at liberty to draw from the facts and documents stated in any such special case any inference which the Court might have drawn therefrom if proved in a cause.
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Special case to state how guardians were constituted, and concurrence of married woman.
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119. Every such special case to which an infant or a lunatic is a party by his guardian or special guardian shall also state how such guardian or special guardian was constituted; and where any married woman having or claiming any interest distinct from her husband is a party to such case, it shall be stated therein that she concurs in such case in her own right.
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Special case to be signed by counsel and filed, and appearances to be entered.
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120. Every such special case shall be signed by counsel for all parties, and shall be filed in the same manner as bills are filed, and the defendants may appear thereto in the same manner as defendants appear to bills; and no defendant shall be required to take an attested copy of a special case, but an attested copy thereof shall be taken by the plaintiff.
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After a special case has been filed, parties to be bound by statements after defendants have appeared, except married women, infants, and lunatics, who are not to be bound till leave given by Court to set it down.
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121. After a special case shall have been filed, and the defendants shall have appeared thereto, all the parties to such special case shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court, in the same manner as if the plaintiff in the special case had filed a bill against the parties named as defendants thereto, and such defendants had appeared to such bill; and upon the special case being filed, and appearances entered thereto as aforesaid, all parties to such special case, other than married women, infants, and lunatics, shall for the purposes of such special case be bound by the statements therein; and all married women, infants, and lunatics made parties to a special case shall for the purposes of such special case be bound by the statements therein, when and not before leave shall have been given by the Court to set down such special case in manner herein-after provided.
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Special case, how to be set down for hearing.
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122. So soon as all the defendants shall have appeared to the special case the same may, subject to the provisions herein-after contained, be set down for hearing, and subpœnas to hear judgment issued and served according to the practice of the said Court.
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When a married woman, infant, or lunatic is a party, application to be made to the Court for leave to set the case down.
Powers of Court on such application.
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123. When any married woman, infant, or lunatic is party to a special case, application may be made to the Court for leave to set down the same, of which application notice shall be given to every party to such case in whom, as executor, administrator or trustee, any property in question therein is or is alleged to be vested in trust for or for the benefit of such married woman, infant, or lunatic, and also, if such application be not made by or on behalf of such married woman, infant, or lunatic, to such married woman and her husband, or to such infant, or to such lunatic and his committee, if any, as the case may be; and upon the hearing of such application the Court may give leave to set down such case, if it shall be of opinion that it is proper that the question raised therein shall be determined thereon, and shall be satisfied by affidavit or other sufficient evidence that the statements contained therein, so far as the same affect the interest of such married woman, infant, or lunatic, are true, but otherwise may refuse such application: Provided always, that in case the Court, upon the hearing of such application, shall be of opinion that it is proper that the question raised in such case shall be determined thereon, but shall not be satisfied that the statements contained therein, so far as they affect the interest of such married woman, infant, or lunatic, are true, it shall be lawful for the Court to direct such inquiries as to the Court shall seem proper, and upon further application being made to give or refuse leave to set down such case, as to the Court shall seem fit.
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Upon hearing, Court to determine questions and make declarations.
Effect of declarations.
Court may refuse to decide.
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124. It shall be lawful for the Court, upon hearing of any such special case as aforesaid, to determine the questions raised therein, or any of them, and by decree to declare its opinion thereon, and, so far as the case shall admit of the same, upon the right involved therein, without proceeding to administer any relief consequent upon such declaration; and every such declaration of the Court contained in any such decree shall have the same force and effect as such declaration would have had, and shall be binding to the same extent as such declaration would have been, if contained in a decree made in a suit between the same parties instituted by bill: Provided always, that if upon the hearing of such special case as aforesaid the Court shall be of opinion that the questions raised thereby, or any of them, cannot properly be decided upon such case, the Court may refuse to decide the same.
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Protection to be afforded to trustees, &c . by declarations.
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125. Every executor, administrator, trustee, or other person making any payment or doing any act in conformity with the declaration contained in any decree made upon a special case shall in all respects be as fully and effectually protected and indemnified by such declaration as if such payment had been made or act done under or in pursuance of the express order of the said Court made in a suit between the same parties instituted by bill, save only as to any rights or claims of any person in respect of matters not determined by such declaration.
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Suspension of decree pending appeal.
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126. Where any person shall be desirous to appeal from the decision on such special case, it shall be lawful for the Court, upon application for that purpose, either at the time of the decree upon such special case being made or at any time afterwards and upon such conditions, if any, as the Court shall think fit, to order that the declaration contained in such decree shall not be acted upon for such time as the Court shall think just.
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Special case shall be a lis pendens, and may be registered.
7 & 8 Vict. c. 90.
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127. The filing of a special case, and the entering of appearances thereto by the persons named as defendants therein, shall be taken to be a lis pendens, and may be registered under the provisions of an Act made and passed in the session of Parliament held in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act for the protection of purchasers against judgments, Crown debts, lis pendens, commission of bankruptcy, and for providing one office for registering all judgments in Ireland, and for amending the laws in Ireland respecting bankrupts and limitations of actions,” in like manner as any other lis pendens in a court of equity may now be so registered, and, unless and until so registered, shall not bind a purchaser or mortgagee without express notice thereof.
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Mode of identifying documents referred to in special case.
Court may order production.
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128. Any document referred to in a special case, and any copies thereof or extracts therefrom, indentified by the signature of the solicitors for all parties, or of the town agents of such solicitors, may be produced and read at the hearing of such case, without further proof; and it shall be lawful for the said Court at any time after the filing of the special case, and the entering of appearances thereto by the persons named as defendants therein, to order any document which may be admitted thereby to be in the possession of any party to such case to be deposited and produced in such manner and for such purposes as the Court shall think fit.
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[Ss. 129–164 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Costs may be taxed, notwithstanding death of party to whom they are awarded.
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165. When by any decree or order costs shall be ordered to be paid to any person, and the person to whom such costs shall be ordered to be paid shall die before such costs shall have been taxed or the amount thereof ascertained, such costs may be taxed and ascertained by the taxing master, notwithstanding the death of such person, on the application of his personal representative.
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Costs may be taxed, notwithstanding death of party by whom they are payable.
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166. When by any decree or order costs shall be ordered to be paid by any person, and in consequence of the death of such person such costs cannot, according to the existing law or practice, be taxed or ascertained, it shall be lawful for the Court, on the application of the person entitled to such costs, to direct the taxing master to tax and ascertain the same, upon service of a summons upon the personal representative of the person by whom such costs have been ordered to be paid, or such person as the Court shall appoint to represent the estate of such deceased person.
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Service of summonses to tax under two preceding sections.
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167. Summonses to tax costs pursuant to the two last preceding sections of this Act shall be served in like manner as ordinary summonses issued by the taxing master, or in such manner as the taxing master shall by any writing to be signed by him direct.
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Taxing master may proceed ex parte, if party served does not attend.
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168. The taxing master may proceed ex parte with such taxation, in case the person served with such summons shall not, by himself or his solicitor, attend pursuant thereto.
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Recovery of costs taxed under this Act.
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169. All costs taxed and ascertained under the provisions of this Act may be recovered in like manner as if the same had been taxed and ascertained in the lifetime of the person to whom or by whom the same shall have been awarded to be paid, or of the person in consequence of whose death the same could not, according to the existing law or practice, have been taxed or ascertained, any law or practice to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Court of Chancery may summarily restrain the Bank of Ireland, &c . from permitting transfer of stock, &c .
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170. It shall be lawful for the said Court of Chancery, upon the application of any party interested, by motion or petition in a summary way, without bill filed, to restrain the Bank of Ireland, or any other public company in Ireland, whether incorporated or not, from permitting the transfer of any stock in the public funds or any stock or shares in any public company which may be standing in the name or names of any person or persons or body politic or corporate in the books of the Bank of Ireland, or in the books of any such public company, or from paying any dividend or dividends due or to become due thereon: Every order of the said Court of Chancery upon such motion or petition as aforesaid shall specify the amount of the stock or the particular shares to be affected thereby, and the name or names of the person or persons, body politic or corporate, in which the same shall be standing: Provided always, that the said Court of Chancery shall have full power, upon the application of any party interested, to discharge or vary such order, and to award such costs upon such application as to the said Court shall seem fit.
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[Ss. 171–177 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Part IV.
[Ss. 178–190 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Part V.
Miscellaneous.
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Provision of salaries, pensions, compensations, and expenses.
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191. . . . all salaries, pensions, compensations, and super-annuations, whether already granted or to be granted, and all expenses in the Court of Chancery (other than the salaries and pensions of the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Justice of Appeal, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, and the Masters), shall be paid out of monies to be voted by Parliament for that purpose; . . .
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[Ss. 192, 193 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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Power to parties ordered to invest in or transfer stock to employ any licensed stock broker.
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194. It shall be lawful for the party or parties in any suit who shall be ordered to invest any money in the purchase of the stocks, funds, or annuities transferable at the Bank of Ireland, or to transfer for sale or otherwise any of the said stocks, funds, or annuities, to employ any one of the licensed stock brokers, being a member of the Stock Exchange in Dublin, to make such investment and transfer.
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[S. 195 spent.]
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[Sched. (A.) rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.) Sched. (B.) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]
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[1 Words in brackets rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.) |
