Judgments (Ireland) Act, 1844

Judgments or rules for judgment not to affect lands, &c. as against purchasers, &c. unless memorandum of particulars be left with officer under this Act, and registered.

2. No judgment of the said superior courts respectively, or rule for such judgment, already docketed under the said first-recited Act, and which has not already been or shall not on or before the said first day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-four be re-docketed or entered after revival under the said Act of the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, shall, after the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, nor shall any judgment of the said superior courts respectively which on the said first day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-four shall not be docketed under the said first-recited Act, or which shall be obtained after that day, affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as to purchasers, mortgagees, or creditors, unless and until a memorandum or minute thereof, containing the names, and the usual or last known place of abode, and the title, trade, or profession, of the plaintiff and defendant or person whose estate is intended to be affected thereby, and the court in which such judgment or rule shall have been obtained, and the date of such judgment or rule, and the amount of the debt, damages, costs, or monies thereby recovered or ordered to be paid, shall be left with the officer to be appointed under this Act, who shall forthwith enter the same particulars in a book, in alphabetical order, by the name of the defendant or person whose estate is intended to be affected by the said judgment or rule; or unless and until the same shall be duly revived according to the course and practice of the said superior courts respectively, and a like memorandum or minute as aforesaid, stating also the revival thereof, shall be left with the officer to be appointed under this Act, who shall forthwith enter the same particulars in a book of revivals to be kept by him, in alphabetical order, by the name of the defendant or person whose estate is intended to be affected by such judgment or rule;. . .