Judgments Extension Act 1868
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Judgments Extension Act, 1868
(31 & 32 Vict.) C A P. LIV.
An Act to render Judgments or Decreets obtained in certain Courts inEngland, Scotland, and Ireland respectively effectual in any other Part of the United Kingdom.
[13th July 1868]
B E 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, as follows:
1 Where Judgment has been obtained in the Courts at Westminster, a Certificate thereof registered in Ireland, and vice vers, shall have the Effect of a Judgment of the Court in which it is so registered.
1. Where Judgment shall hereafter be obtained or entered up in any of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer atWestminster or Dublin respectively for any Debt, Damages, or Costs, on Production to the Master of the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin where such Judgment shall have been obtained or entered up in any of the said Courts in England , or to the Senior Master of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster where such Judgment shall have been obtained or entered up in any of the said Courts in Ireland , of a Certificate of such Judgment in one of the Forms contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, as the Case may be, purporting to be signed by the proper Officer of the Court where such Judgment has been obtained or entered up, such Certificate shall be registered by such Master in a Register to be kept in the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin and at Westminster respectively for that Purpose, and to be called in the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin , ‘The Register for English Judgments,’ and to be called in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster‘The Register for Irish Judgments,’ and shall from the Date of such Registration be of the same Force and Effect, and all Proceedings shall and may be had and taken on such Certificate, as if the Judgment of which it is a Certificate had been a Judgment originally obtained or entered up on the Date of such Registration as aforesaid in the Court in which it is so registered, and all the reasonable Costs and Charges attendant upon the obtaining and registering such Certificate shall be recovered in like Manner as if the same were Part of the original Judgment: Provided always, that no Certificate of any such Judgment shall be registered as aforesaid more than Twelve Months after the Date of such Judgment, unless Application shall have been first made to and Leave obtained from the Court or a Judge of the Court in which it is sought so to register such Certificate.
2 Where Judgment has been obtained in the Courts at Westminster or at Dublin, a Certificate thereof registered in Scotland shall have the Effect of a Decreet of the Court of Session.
2. Where Judgment shall hereafter be obtained or entered up in any of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer atWestminster or Dublin respectively for any Debt, Damages, or Costs, on Production at the Office kept in Edinburgh for the Registration of Deeds, Bonds, Protests, and other Writs registered in the Books of Council and Session of a Certificate of such Judgment in one of the Forms contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, as the Case may be, purporting to be signed by the proper Officer of the Court where such Judgment has been obtained or entered up, such Certificate shall be registered in a Book to be kept for that Purpose, and to be called ‘The Register for English and Irish Judgments,’ in like Manner as a Bond executed according to the Law of Scotland , with a Clause of Registration for Execution therein contained; and every Certificate so registered shall from the Date of such Registration be of the same Force and Effect as a Decreet of the...
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