Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland; From Hilary Term, 1841, to Trinity Term, 1842, Inclusive, Fourth and Fifth Victoria (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...all powers, privileges, and authorities whatsoever, "usually exercised and enjoyed by sheriffs of counties in Ireland, without "any patent, writ of assistance, or other writ whatsoever, or entering into "recognizance by himself or sureties, and without payment of or being "liable to pay any fees whatsoever for the same." Section 3rd enacts, that the sheriff shall transmit the duplicate of appointment of his under sheriff to the secondary of the Chief Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer within one month after such appointment, to be filed among the records of his office. Section 5th enacts, "that each and every person so appointed sheriff "and nnder-sheriff as aforesaid, shall, before he enter upon the execution "of his office, take the oath heretofore and now required by law; which "oath shall be fairly written on parchment, without being subject to "stamp duty, and signed by him, and shall and may be sworn before "the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer, or any of them, or before the "said Chief Remembrancer, or any Commissioner for taking affidavits "in the said court, and the same shall be thereupon transmitted to the "said secondary, who is hereby required to file the same among the "records of his office, for which he shall be entitled to demand and have "from such sheriff or undcr-sheriff the sum of five shillings, and no "more; and no sheriff or under-sheriff shall act as such until such affida"vit shall be lodged with such secondary, on pain of forfeiture for any 1841. hands, and of prisoners in his custody, but he did not Ashtown include therein the writ at the suit of Thomas Graydon Burke. against Dwyer. On the 28th February, another writ of fi. fa. issued a...