Wirksworth Small Debts Recovery Act 1839
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1839 c. cii |
| Year | 1839 |
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An Act for the
Debts within the Parish
Small
and other Parishes and PI
Cap.
cii.
easy and speedy Recovery
Wirksworth
thereto,
Stafford in th Cou adj near
of Derby and
[17th August 1839.]
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HEREAS the Parish of:. Wirksworth in the County of
Derby is very populous, and the several adjacent Parishes,
Townships, and Places-of Alfreton,. Ashbourn, Bakewell,
Bradbourn,^ Brassing
ton,.
Blackwell, Bonsall, Bradley; Bentley, Car-
singtoriy
Gubteyti Crich, Codfior park and Park Liberty, ,Darley, and
the Townships or Places of:Dethick^Lea, and Holloway, within the
Parish of Ashover, Eyam, Edensor, Edlaston, ^Hognaston, Hulland
Ward,
Kirk Breton; Kniveton, Longford, Loscoe,, Matlock, Morton,
Mappleton, Norbury, Qsmaston^Penlrich,, Pinxton, Parwich, Shir
land,
Shirley, Snelston, Stonefj Middleton^SouthwingJieid, South ^Nprmanton,
Tibshelf,
Tissington, Thorpe, and Youlgreave, in the County of Derby,
and Blare, Ham, and Mayfield, in the County of Stafford, and the
several Townships,.Hamjets,;.and Places in the same Parishes respec-
tively, or some.of them, are also populous; and in the said Parish
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of JVirksworth, and many of the said other Parishes, Townships, and
Places, there are many very considerable Manufactories and Collieries,
which employ great Numbers of People, who, along with divers other
Persons residing or trading within the said Parishes, Townships, 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 respective Debts, they often refuse to pay
the same by reason of which their respective Creditors are either
obliged to forego their several Debts, or for the Recovery thereof
to incur an Expence sometimes far exceeding and in all Cases dispro-
portionate to the Sum in dispute : And whereas it would be a great
Benefit to the Inhabitants of the said several Parishes, Town-
ships,
and Places, 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 Parishes, Townships, and
Places were provided ; 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
Constitution Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the
of
the
Court. Judge and his Successors, to be appointed as herein-after mentioned,
are hereby constituted a Court of Justice for the Recovery of Small
Debts within the several Parishes, Townships, Hamlets, and Places
aforesaid, by the Name of the " JVirksworth Court of Requests «
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
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
ealled 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 shall have
been called to the Bar, and shall have practised as a Barrister for at
least Seven Years, or who shall bean 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, as a fit Person to be appointed
Judge of the said Court; and it shall be lawful for the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great
Seal, for the Time being, if he or they shall think fit, to remove
any Judge of the said Court for Misbehaviour, or upon a Petition
to be preferred to him or them for that Purpose by the Justices of
the County of Derby in Quarter Sessions assembled, or by Three
Justices of the said County residing within the Townships or Places
aforesaid ; and every such Judge shall be entitled to hold his Office
during his good Behaviour therein, or until he shall die, resign, or
be so removed.
whereand n\m And be it enacted, That the said,Court shall be holden under
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the Allthority of" this Act in some convenient Place in the Towns
holden. °f JVirksworth, Alfreton, Ashbourn, and Bakewell, at such Times as
4 the
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