Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849

Registered judgments, &c. for poor rates to have priority as to lands within the union, except over crown rents, &c.

5 & 6 Vict. c 89, &c. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 32.

18. Every judgment obtained in any action or suit in any superior court of law against any person or persons for poor rates, and every civil bill decree for poor rates filed in a superior court as hereinbefore provided, shall, when the same shall have been registered in the office of the registrar of judgments, be a charge, and take priority as a charge, on all the estate and interest in any lands of the person against whom such judgment or civil bill decree shall have been obtained situate within the union wherein such poor rates shall have accrued, before all charges and incumbrances whatsoever, and wheresoever made, save and except crown rents and quit rents, rent-charges in lieu of tithes, and all charges (if any) existing under and by virtue of the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1842, and two other Acts since passed amending the same, and all charges (if any) existing under and by virtue of the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847.