Judgment Mortgage (Ireland) Act 1850

Existing Judgments, &c. not to affect Land purchased after pasting of this Act.

II. And be it enacted, That where any legal or equitable Estate or Interest or any disposing Power in or over any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall, under any Conveyance, Lease, Deed, or Instrument executed after the passing of this Act, become vested in any Person as a Purchaser for valuable Consideration, such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall not be taken in Execution under any Writ of Elegit or other Writ of Execution (save as herein-after mentioned) to be sued upon any Judgment which before the passing of this Act has been entered up in any of Her Majesty’s Superior Courts at Dublin, or obtained in any Inferior Court of Record, against such Person, or any Decree, Order, or Rule which has been made before the passing of this Act for Payment by such Person of any Sum of Money, Costs, Charges, or Expenses, and no Receiver shall be appointed over such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in respect of any Money due upon such Judgment, Decree, Order, or Rule, nor shall such Judgment, Decree, Order, or Rule operate as a Charge upon or in anywise charge or affect such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, save as provided by this Act: Provided always, that this Enactment shall not take away or affect any Rights or Remedies which might have been had against or in relation to such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, if this Act had not been passed, in respect of any Estate, Interest, Right, Title, or Power, in, to, or over the same, which may have been in such Person before the passing of this Act.