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Appeal to be by notice served within four clear days after close of sitting of civil bill court.
Proof of service by affidavit.
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5. Every appeal under this Act shall be by notice signed by the party appealing or his solicitor in the form or to the like effect in the schedule to this Act annexed. Such notice shall be lodged with the clerk of the peace and shall be served within four clear days from the close of the sitting of the county court for the hearing of civil bills at which the decree or adjudication appealed from shall have been made, and shall be to the next assize to be held after the said period. Service of such notice shall be effected on the opposing party or his solicitor personally, or by leaving same at their or either of their residences with a clerk, servant, wife, or child, or other person therein over the age of sixteen years; and proof of such service shall be by affidavit made before any justice of the peace, which he is hereby empowered to take, or before the clerk of the peace; and on such proof being given the clerk of the peace shall enter the same for hearing before the judge of assize, and such entry shall be primâ facie proof of due service thereof before such judge of assize.
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