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Constitution of High Court of Justice to Ireland.
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6. Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in Ireland shall be constituted as follows:—The first Judges thereof shall be the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Vice-Chancellor, the several Puisne Justices of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas respectively, the several Junior Barons of the Court of Exchequer, the Judge of the Court of Probate and of the Court for Matrimonial Causes and Matters, and the Judges of the Landed Estates Court, except such, if any, of the aforesaid Judges as shall be appointed an ordinary Judge of the Court of Appeal.
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Whenever the office of a Judge of the said High Court, other than the Lord Chancellor, shall become vacant, a new Judge may be appointed thereto by Her Majesty by Letters Patent.
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All persons to be hereafter appointed to fill the places of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Baron, and their successors respectively, shall continue to be appointed to the same respective offices, with the same precedence, and by the same respective titles, and in the same manner respectively as heretofore. Every judge, other than the Lord Chancellor and the Judges last mentioned, who shall be appointed to fill the place of any Judge of the High Court of Justice, shall be styled in his appointment “Judge of Her Majesty's High Court of “Justice in Ireland.”
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All the Judges of the Supreme Court shall be addressed in the manner which is now customary in addressing the Judges of the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland, and shall have in all respects, save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided, equal power authority and jurisdiction.
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