Judgments (Ireland) Act, 1849

What lands may be delivered in execution on judgments subject to this Act.

3. The sheriff or other officer to whom any writ of elegit, or any precept in pursuance thereof, is directed at the suit of any person, upon any judgment subject to the provisions of this Act recovered in any action in any of her Majesty’s superior courts at Dublin, shall make and deliver execution unto the party in that behalf suing of all such lands, tenements, rectories, tithes, rents, and hereditaments only (including lands and hereditaments which may be of copyhold tenure) as the person against whom execution is so sued, or any person in trust for him, is seised or possessed of at the time when such writ of elegit is delivered to the sheriff or other officer to be executed, or over which the person against whom execution is so sued has at the time when such writ of elegit is delivered as aforesaid any disposing power which he might, without the assent of any other person, exercise for his own benefit, which lands, tenements, rectories, tithes, rents, and hereditaments, by force and virtue of such execution, shall accordingly be held and enjoyed by the party to whom such execution shall be so made and delivered, subject to such account in the court out of which such execution shall have been sued out as a party to whom execution is made and delivered under the recited provision of the said Act of the fourth year of her Majesty is made subject to under such provision.