Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851

Service, &c. of bill in such cases.

81. [2] Every civil bill process brought for the recovery of the possession of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments held in the manner specified in either of the two immediately preceding provisions, shall be duly served upon all and every person or persons who shall be in the actual possession of the lands, tenements, or other hereditaments specified in and claimed by any such civil bill, and also such other person or persons (if any) as shall be interested in the same or in any part thereof under any registered conveyance; and if there be not any person in the actual possession of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, then the affixing of such civil bill to or upon some conspicuous part of the premises so claimed, and upon the door or gate or one of the piers of the door or gate of the parish church (if there shall be any in the parish), and also upon the door or gate or upon one of the piers of the door or gate of the Roman Catholic chapel (if there shall be any in the parish wherein the said premises shall be situated), shall be and be deemed to be good and sufficient service of such civil bill; and it shall be lawful for the assistant barrister to make an order or decree for the delivering up of possession of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments to the party entitled thereto.

[2 Sections 81, 84–87, 92, 94, 96 are rep., so far as they relate to proceedings between landlord and tenant, and to persons in occupation who shall have signed acknowledgments pursuant to this Act, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 154. s. 104.]