Chancery of Lancaster Act 1890
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Chancery of Lancaster Act, 1890
(53 & 54 Vict.) CHAPTER 23.
An Act to further improve the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
[25th July 1890]
W HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the better administration of justice in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theChancery of Lancaster Act, 1890.
2 Construction.
2. This Act shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, be construed as one with the Court of Chancery of Lancaster Act, 1850, and the Court of Chancery of Lancaster Act, 1854, and such Acts and this Act may be referred to as the Chancery of Lancaster Acts, 1850 to 1890.
3 Court to have jurisdiction of Chancery Division.
3. From and after the passing of this Act the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster (in this Act called the Lancaster Chancery Court) shall, as regards all persons, bodies corporate. and property within or becoming subject to its jurisdiction, have and exercise the like powers and jurisdiction, and in a similar manner, and subject to the same restrictions in all respects, as the High Court in its Chancery Division now has and exercises, or may, under or by virtue of any Act of Parliament hereafter passed, and not expressly enacting to the contrary hereof, have and exercise, in respect of all persons, bodies corporate, and property within its jurisdiction.
4 Jurisdiction of Court of Appeal.
(1)4.—(1.) Her Majesty's Court of Appeal shall, as to all judgments and orders of the Lancaster Chancery Court, have and exercise the like appellate and original jurisdiction as the Court of Appeal now has and exercises, or may, under or by virtue of any Act of Parliament hereafter passed, and not expressly enacting to the contrary hereof, have and exercise with respect to judgments and orders of the High Court or of any Judge thereof.
(2) (2.) All judgments and orders of the Court of Appeal in causes or matters now pending or hereafter to be commenced in the Lancaster Chancery Court shall...
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