Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

Such Court to sit continuously.

CCXXXV. Such Consolidated Nisi Prius Court shall sit continuously, or by Adjournment, as Occasion may require, on the Second Day of each Term, and thence continuously until the End thereof, or so much longer as may be necessary for the Completion of any Trial then in progress before the said Court; and Notice of Trial may be served for any Day within the said Period, subject, however, to such Regulations as to the Class of Cases to be tried in the said Court, or otherwise, as is herein-after expressed, or as the Judges, or any Seven of them, of whom Two shall be Chief Judges, may by any General Order make from Time to Time in that Behalf: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere with the Duty of the Chief Judge of each Court, as now discharged, of sitting after Term for the Trial of Issues at Nisi Prius, but that each of the said Chief Judges, or some other Judge of the Court in his Stead, shall, notwithstanding the Sittings at Nisi Prius herein provided, sit after Term as heretofore, for the Trial of any Issues at Nisi Prius arising in his Court which shall be entered as heretofore for such after Sittings; and provided also, that if any Issue or Issues entered for Trial in the said Consolidated Nisi Prius Court shall remain undisposed of at the Termination of the Sittings of the said Court for any Term, the same shall be transferred to and be deemed to have been entered for such after Sittings, and shall be taken up and disposed of respectively by the Chief Judge of the Court in which such Issues respectively shall have arisen as if the same had been originally entered for such after Sittings.