Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849

Civil bill decree for pool rates removed into superior court to have the effect of a judgment of a superior court as to lands of defendant within the union.

17. [Recital.] All civil bill decrees for the recovery of poor rate pronounced or made by any assistant barrister in Ireland . . . or by the recorder of Dublin, shall be removable into any of her Majesty’s superior courts of law in Dublin, without any writ of certiorari or other writ or process for that purpose; and upon the production of such civil bill decree to the master of any such superior court of law, and upon production of an affidavit made by an attorney of such superior court, verifying the signature of such assistant barrister . . . or recorder to such civil bill decree, and upon payment of a fee of two shillings to such master, he shall receive and file the said decree upon a file to be kept for that purpose, and shall enter the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be open to inspection; and immediately upon the filing of such decree as aforesaid such decree shall, with respect to all lands of the person against whom such judgment or civil bill decree shall have been obtained situate within the union where such poor rate shall have accrued, be deemed a record of such superior court, and shall be of the same force and effect as a judgment recovered in such superior court, and execution and all other proceedings shall and may be had and taken thereupon, or by reason or in consequence thereof, as if such decree had been originally a judgment of such superior court; and such decree may be registered in the office of the registrar of judgments, in like manner as a judgment of any such superior court.