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Civil Bill Courts to have the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery in certain matters.
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33. The several Civil Bill Courts in Ireland shall, in addition to the jurisdiction now possessed by them, have and exercise all the power and authority of the High Court of Chancery in the suits and matters herein-after mentioned; that is to say,
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(a.) In all suits by creditors, legatees, (whether specific pecuniary or residuary,) devisees (whether in trust or otherwise), heirs-at-law, or next-of-kin, in which the estate against or for an account or administration of which the demand may be made, so far as it is personalty, shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of five hundred pounds, and so far as it consists of lands shall not exceed the annual value of thirty pounds:
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(b.) In all suits for the execution of trusts in which the trust estate or fund, so far as it is personalty, shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of five hundred pounds, and so far as it consists of lands shall not exceed the annual value of thirty pounds:
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(c.) In all suits for foreclosure sale or redemption of, or for enforcing any mortgage charge or lien upon, lands where the mortgage charge or lien shall not exceed in amount five hundred pounds, and the annual value of the lands to which the suit relates shall not exceed thirty pounds:
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(d.) In all suits for the specific performance of any agreement for the sale, purchase, or letting of any property, or for the reforming, delivering up, or cancelling any such agreement, where in the case of a sale or purchase, the purchase money shall not exceed five hundred pounds, or in the case of a letting the annual value of the property to which the suit relates shall not exceed thirty pounds:
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(f.) In all suits for the taking of any partnership account, or for the dissolution or winding up of any partnership, in which the whole property, stock, and credits of the partnership shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of five hundred pounds:
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(g.) In all proceedings for partition where the property to which the proceedings relate shall not exceed the annual value of thirty pounds:
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(h.) In all proceedings by a landlord against a tenant to stay waste, whether an account be prayed or not, where the annual value of the holding to which the proceedings relate shall not exceed thirty pounds:
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(i.) In all proceedings under the Trustee's Relief Acts, or under the Trustee Acts, or under any of such Acts, in which the trust property to which the proceedings relate, so far as it is personalty, shall not exceed in amount or value five hundred pounds, and so far as it consists of lands shall not exceed the annual value of thirty pounds.
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(k.) In all proceedings relating to the maintenance or advancement or for the protection of the property of an infant, where the property of the infant, so far as it is personalty, shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of five hundred pounds, and so far as it consists of lands shall not exceed the annual value of thirty pounds:
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(l.) In all proceedings for orders in the nature of injunctions, where the same are requisite for granting relief in any matter in which jurisdiction is given to the Civil Bill Courts, or for staying proceedings at law to recover any debt provable under a decree for the administration of an estate made by the Court to which the application for the order to stay proceedings is made.
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