Leicester Court of Requests Act 1836
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1836 c. xxiii |
| Year | 1836 |
ANNO SEXTO
GULIELM1 IV. REGIS.
Cap.xxiii.
An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of
Small Debts within the Borough.pi-Leicester-in
the County of Leicester. [19th May 1836.]
W
HEREAS the Borough of Leicesterin the County of.Leicester
is very populous, and in the same Borough there are many
very considerable Manufactories which employ great Numbers
of People, who, along with divers other Persons residing or trading within
the said Borough, contract Small Debts, which in the whole amount yearly
to a large Sum or Money ; and although many of such Debtors are well
able to pay their respective Debts they bften 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 Inhabitants of
the said Borough, and tend much to the Support and Protection of useful
Credit within the same, if an easy and speedy Method of recovering Small
Debts within the said Borough were provided ; but inasmuch as 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 King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That John Allen; Commis-
Stephen Atkin, Thomas Archer, Edward Allen, Rowland Austin, Thomas sionere
Agar, Matthew Ber ridge, Benjamin
Brookhouse,
John
Bailey, JohnBosworth, aPP0,nted'
William Baines, Robert Birkleyt Robert Brewin, John Bankart the younger,
[Low/.] 6 L Charles
502 6°GULIELMI IV. Cap.xxm.
Charles Bowmar, Ediuard Bracebridge, William Butcher, John Biggs,
Joseph
Chamberlain,
Thomas Combe
the younger, Thomas
Cook,
Samuel Cartwright,
Thomas Corah, Edward
Coleman,
Peter
Colston,
Joseph
Cripps,
John
Cooper,
John Collier, James Cort, Benjamin Cort, Joseph Spencer Car dale, Thomas
William Dabbs, William Dunmore, William Dalton, Joseph Fielding, Robert
Freeman, William Frisby, James Foster, Mansfield
Gregory,
Thomas Gamble,
William Grundon, William Gray, Samuel Smith Harris, William Howcutt,
William Haddon, George Brushfield Hodges, William Evans Hutchinson,
John Higginson, Samuel How the younger, James Hudson, Henry Highton,
George Houghton, John Houlden, Joshua Harrison, Joseph Hames, Richard
Harris, William Johnson,
Thomas
Johnson, William
Jackson,
William Ingram,
Charles Inman, Mark Oliver Iron, John Kirby, Daniel Knight, John Ken-
dall, Samuel Kirby, Thomas
Lockwood,
William Salte
Lock-wood,
Isaac Lovell,
Thomas Marston, Abraham Meres, William Miles, Richard Mitchell, John
Measures, John Manning, John Mellor, Joseph Moore, John Eames Mar-
shall, Thomas Nunneley, James Neale, John Nichols, John Oldacres, Henry
Oldfield, Robert Overton, James Page, John Pratt, Joseph Philips, Thomas
Paget, Robert Parr, William Parsons, Benjamin Payne, Charles Burt
Robinson, Henry Rawson, James Rawson, Onesiphorus Raworth, William
Rowlett, William Sturgess, John Pin/old Stallard, William Smith, Benjamin
Sutton, William
Weston
Stretton,
Thomas
Stokes,
James
Sargeant, John Sarson,
Samuel Spurrett, John Taylor, William Taylor, Thomas Toone, Joseph
Wheatley, Samuel Waters, Richard ffilley, Edward Weston, William Wall,
Joseph
Wright, Thomas Wheeler, Thomas Watts, Thomas
Wood
the younger,
Richard Warner
Wood,
Joseph Whetstone, and John George White Young
shall be and are hereby appointed the Commissioners for the Recovery of
Small Debts within the said Borough of Leicester, and the said Commis-
sioners and. their Successors are hereby constituted a Court of Justice by
the Name of " The Court of Requests for the Borough of Leicester;"
Meetings and the said Commissioners are. hereby empowered and required to meet
•
of
Cominis-
and hold the said Court on Tuesday once in every Two Weeks, or oftener,
sioners. jf ;n the Opinion of the said Commissioners there shall be Occasion, {Christ-
mas Day and Fast and Thanksgiving Days by Proclamation excepted, and
then on the following Day,) in some convenient Place within the Borough
of Leicester aforesaid to be from Time to Time appointed as Occasion
may require by the major Part of the said Commissioners present at any
of their Meetings to be holden by virtue of this Act; and the First Meeting
of the said Commissioners shall be holden at the Town Hall within the
said Borough, on the Third Tuesday next after the passing of this Actj
and the said Commissioners or the major Part of them who shall be
present, such Number present not being less than Three, at their Meet-
ings to be holden as aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered to
determine all such Actions and Causes as are herein-after mentioned, and
to give such Judgments, and make such Orders and Decrees therein, and
to award Execution thereupon, with the Costs, (such Costs to be in the
Discretion of the said Court as to the Party by or to whom the same shall
either wholly or in part be paid,) against the Goods and Chattels or
against the Body or Bodies of all and every the Person and Persons
against whom they shall give any such Judgment, or make any Order or
Decree, as to them shall seem just in Law or Equity; and at every such
Meeting the Commissioners present shall and may appoint one of the
Commissioners as Chairman of such Meeting ; and the Chairman, in case
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