Nottingham Small Debts Recovery Act 1839
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1839 c. cv |
| Year | 1839 |
ANNO SECUNDO & TERTIO
VICTORIA REGIN.E
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Cap.
cv.
An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of
Small Debts within the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, and other Places therein
mentioned, in the Counties of Nottingham and
Derby. [17th August 1839.]
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HEREAS the Parishes of Saint Mary, Saint Peter, and
Saint Nicholas, in the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, are very large and populous, and the said
Town of Nottingham is a Market Town, and the Town of Mansfield
in the County of Nottingham is also a Market Town, and is likewise
large and populous, and some of the several Parishes and Places of
Arnold,
Attenborough, Annesley* Basford, Beeston, Bilborough, Bing-
ham,
Bulcote, Bramcote, Brewhouse
Yard,
Bulwell, Bunny, Burton
Joyce, Barton, Boughton, Bilsthorpe, Blidworth, Calverton, Clifton,
Colston Basseit, Colwick, Cossall, Cortlingstock, Cotgrwoe, Cropwell
Bishop, Cuchney", Eastwood, East Leake, Epperston, Edwalton,
Edwinstowe, Eddingley, Farnsfield, Gedling, Greasley, Gonalston,
Gotham, Holme Pierrepont, Hucknall Tor/card, Halam, Hucknall-
under-Huthwaite, Keyworth, Kirldington, Kirhby-in-Ashjield, Lamb-
ley, Lenton, Linby, Lowdham, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottingham
Parle, Nuttall, Newstead, Oxton, Ollerton, Papplewick, Plumtre,
Ratcliffe-on-Trent, Radford, Ruddington, Rufford, Selston, Shelford,
Sneinton, Standard Hill, Staplejbrd, Stanton*on4he-Wolds, Strelley,
[Locals 32 G Sutton-
2878 2° & 3° VICTORIA, Cap.cv.
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Skeg'by, Thrumpton, Thurgarton, Trowell, Tithby,
Teversall, Widmerpoql, Wilford, West Bridgford, Woodborough,
Wollaton,West Leake, Warsop, Walesby, and Wellow, in the said
County of Nottingham, are also populous ; and some of the several
Parishes and Places of Breaston, Risky, Satvley, and Wilne, in the
Coqnty of Derby, are likewise populous; and the several Parishes
and Flacfes before mentioned to be situate in the Counties of Not-
tirigham and Derby are all within the Distance of Ten Miles or there-
abouts from the said Market Towns of Nottingham and Mansfield,
or One of them: And whereas in the said Towns of Nottingham
and Mansfield there are many very considerable Manufactories, and
an extensive Trade is carried on, and also in many of the said
Parishes and Places there are likewise very considerable Manufac-
tories and Collieries which employ great Numbers of People, who,
along with divers other Persons residing or trading within the said
several Towns, Parishes, and Places, contract 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 respec-
tive Debts they often refuse to pay the same, by reason of which
their respective Creditors are either obliged to forego their respec-
tive Debts, or for the Recovery thereof to incur an Expence some-
times far exceeding, and in all Cases disproportionate to, the Sums
in dispute : And whereas it would encourage Industry, and be of
great Advantage to the Inhabitants of the said Towns of Nottingham
and Mansfield, and the said several other Parishes and Places before
mentioned, 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 Towns, Parishes, and Places were prot.
vided, and to be established and held at the Market Towns of
Nottingham and Mansfield aforesaid; 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 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
The Court of the same, That the Judge and his Successors, to be appointed as
constituted, herein-after mentioned, are hereby constituted a Court of Justice for
the Recovery of Small Debts within the several Parishes, Townships,
and Places aforesaid, by the Name of the " Nottingham and Mans-
field Court of Requests.
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Judge of
the
II. 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. that
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 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 Lord Chancellor, Lord
Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, for the Time
] being,
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