Courts of Exchequer Act 1799

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1799 c. 67
Year1799
Anno Regni GEORGII III. tricesimo nono. An Actto enable such Person as His Majesty shall please to appoint to the vacant Office of a Baron of the Exchequer, to take upon himself the Degree of a Serjeant at Law.

(39 Geo. 3) C A P. LXVII.

[1st July 1799]

'WHEREAS the Office of one of the Barons of the Coif of his Majesty's Exchequer is now vacant, and it is expedient that a proper Person should be forthwith appointed to succeed to such Office; and it is also expedient that such Person should be of the Degree of a Serjeant at Law, which Degree cannot be taken in Vacation: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the King'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, That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, at any Time before the Commencement of nextMichaelmas Term, to cause a Writ to be issued out of his Majesty's High Court of Chancery, directed to any such Person, being a Barrister at Law, as his Majesty shall think fit, returnable immediately in the said Court, commanding such Person to appear in the said Court, and to take upon himself the State and Dignity of a Serjeant at Law; and such Person shall and may thereupon forthwith appear before the Lord High Chancellor, at such Time and Place as the Lord High Chancellor shall appoint; and such Person so appearing, and taking the Oaths usually administered to a Serjeant at Law, shall, without any further Act or Ceremony, be, and be deemed and taken to be, a Serjeant at Law, sworn to all Intents and Purposes: And in case his Majesty shall...

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