Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1874

Power to remove cases involving title to corporeal or incorporeal hereditaments to superior courts.

2. The defendant in any civil bill in which the title to a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament shall be in question may, at any time after the service of the civil bill on him, apply to a judge of one of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland for a summons to the plaintiff to show cause why such action shall not be tried in one of the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland on the ground that the title to lands or hereditaments of greater annual value than [1 thirty pounds] as before defined would be affected by the decision in such action, or on any other ground which may make it more proper to have the case tried in any of such Courts; and on the hearing of such summons the judge may, if he think expedient, order, on such terms as he may think proper to impose, that the proceedings in the civil bill court shall be discontinued, and that such action shall be tried in one of the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland.

[1 Substituted for “twenty pounds” by 40 & 41 Vict. c. 56. s. 53.]