Registration of Deeds Act 1707

For neglect or undue practice forfeiture of office, and treble damages with full costs.

XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any such register, or his deputy, shall neglect to perform his or their duty in the execution of the said office, according to the rules and directions in this act mentioned, or commit or suffer to be committed any undue or fraudulent practice in the execution of the said office, and be thereof lawfully convicted, that then such register shall forfeit his said office, and pay treble damages, with the full costs of suit, to every such person or persons as shall be injured thereby; to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of her Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin, wherein no essoign, protection, privilege of Parliamen, or wager of law shall be allowed, nor any more than one imparlance.