Gainsborough Small Debts Recovery Act 1841
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1841 c. lxxxvi |
| Year | 1841 |
ANNO QUARTO & QUINTO
VICTORLE REGINTE
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Cap.lxxxvi.
An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of
Small Debts within the Town of Gainsburgh in
the County of Lincoln, and other Places in the
Counties of Lincoln and Nottingham.
[21st Jam? 1841.]
W
HEREAS the Town of Gainsburgh is a Market Town,
and very populous, and the several Parishes or Townships
of Atterby, Aisthorpe or East Thorpe, Blyborough,
Blyton~cum~
Wharton, Brattleby, Bishop Norton, Brampton* Brox-
holme, Gate Burton, Caenby, Chatham, Cammeringham, Coates,
Corringham, Fillingham, Fenton, East Ferry, East Firsby, West
Firsby, Gainsburgh, Grayingham, Glentham, Glentworth, Harpswell,
Hemswell, Heapham, Hardwick, Ingham, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Kexby,
Kettlethorpe, Knaith, Lea, Laughton, Marlon, Mortan, Misson, Nor-
manby-by- Spital, Newton-on-Trent, Northorpe, Owmby, Pilham, Saxby,
Saxelby-with-Ingleby, Snitterby, Spital, Scampton, Stowe, Sturton
md'Bransby, Southorpe, Springthorpe, Scotter, Scotton, East
Stock*
with,
Spridlington, Thorpe-in-the-Fallows or West Thorpe, Torksey,
Upton, Willingham-by- Stowe, Willoughton9 Wildsworth, and WaU
kerithy in the County of Lincoln; West Stockwith, and Thorney in
the County of Nottingham ; and also the Extra-parochial Places of
Paddocks withiji or adjoining the said Parish or Township of Gains-
burgh and Greenhill within or adjoining the said Parish of
Blyton-*
cum-Wharton in the said County of Lincoln, and the other Extra-
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parochial Places within or adjoining the said Parishes or Townships
before mentioned, are also populous: And whereas an extensive
Trade is carried on in the said Town of Gainsburgh^ as also in many
of the several Parishes or Townships before mentioned, and Credit in
small Sums to a considerable Amount is frequently given by Trades-
men and Shopkeepers, and a great Number of People residing or
trading within all or a great many of the said Parishes, Townships,
and Places contract with such Tradesmen and Shopkeepers small
Debts,
which in the whole amount yearly to a very large Sum of
Money, and although many of such Debtors are well able to pay
their respective Debts they often refuse to pay the same, by reason of
which their respective Creditors are either obliged to forego their
respective Debts, or for the Recovery thereof to incur an Expence
sometimes far exceeding and in all Cases disproportionate to the Sums
in dispute: And whereas it would be a great Benefit to the Inhabi-
tants of the said Town, and the said several Parishes or Townships
and Places, and tend much to the Support and Protection of useful
Credit, if an easy and speedy Method of recovering Small Debts
from Debtors residing or trading within the said Town, Parishes,
Townships, or Places were provided and established; but the same
cannot be effected without the Aid and Authority of Parliament;
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;
and be it 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, That the Judge and his Successors, to be
appointed as herein-after mentioned, shall be a Court of Justice for
the Recovery of Small Debts within the said Town, and the said
several Parishes or Townships and Places, by the Name of " The
Gainsburgh Court of Requests."
II.
And be it enacted, That the said Court shall be holden at some
convenient Place within the said Town of Gainsburgh, and in such
other Places within the said Parishes, Townships, and Places, or any of
them, as the said Judge shall from Time to Time see fit, and at such
Times as the said Judge shall appoint, but so that the Intervals
between the holding of any Two such Courts at Gainsburgh shall in
no Case be more than Three Calendar Months.
Judge of
the
HI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chan-
Court to be cellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of
appointed. ^^
part
0f the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, for the Time being, at any Time after the passing of this Act,
and from Time to Time, when and as any Judge to be appointed under
this Act shall die, resign, or be removed, to appoint to be Judge of
the said Court any Person who either shall have been called to "the
Bar, and shall have practised as a Barrister for at least Seven Years, or
who shall be an Attorney of one of Her Majesty's Superior Courts
of Common Law at Westminster, and shall have been certified by
Three or more Judges of the said Superior Courts to the said Lord
Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal,
for the Time being, as a fit Person to be appointed Judge of the said
Court; and it shall T)e lawful for the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper
or
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