Court of Exchequer, Equity Side Act 1836
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1836 c. 112 |
| Year | 1836 |
(6 & 7 Will. 4) C A P. CXII.
[20th August 1836]
'WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty KingGeorge the Third, intituled Westminster, it was enacted, that the Lord Chief Baron of the said Court for the Time being should have Power to hear and determine all Causes, Matters, and Things which should be at any Time depending in the said Court as a Court of Equity, and that if the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer should by Sickness or any other unavoidable Cause be prevented from sitting on the Equity Side of the said Court for the Purposes in the said Act mentioned, then it should and might be lawful for His Majesty and His Successors to nominate and appoint from Time to Time, under the Royal Sign Manual, revocable at Pleasure, any other of the Barons of the Degree of the Coif of the said Court for the Time being to hear and determine such Causes, Matters, and Things: And whereas by an Act of Parliament passed in the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled , it was declared and enacted, that it should and might be lawful for His Majesty and His Successors to nominate and appoint from Time to Time, by Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual, revocable at Pleasure, any One of the Barons of the Coif of the said Court for the Time being to hear and determine on such Days as the Lord Chief Baron should sit on the Common Law Side of the said Court during Term, or should preside at the Sittings at Nisi Prius inLondon or Middlesex after the Term, or should attend at the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, all Causes, Matters, and Things which should at any Time be depending in the Court of Equity: And whereas great Inconvenience has been sustained by the Suitors and Practitioners on the Equity Side of the said Court by reason of the last-recited Act not having provided for the Case of the Lord Chief Baronbeing prevented from sitting by his Absence on the Circuit, or for the Case of a Cause not being fully heard and decided by the Baron sitting in the Absence of the Chief Baron:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and...
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