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Jurisdiction of Judges of High Court on circuit.
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32. Her Majesty, by commission of assize, or by any other commission, either general or special, may assign to any Judge or Judges of the High Court of Justice or other person or persons usually named in commissions of assize, the duty of trying and determining, within any place or district specially fixed for that purpose by such commission, any causes or matters, or any questions or issues of fact or of law, or partly of fact and partly of law, in any cause or matter depending in the said High Court, or the exercise of any civil or criminal jurisdiction capable of being exercised by the said High Court; and any commission so granted by Her Majesty shall be of the same validity as if it were enacted in the body of this Act; and any Commissioner or Commissioners appointed in pursuance of this section shall, when engaged in the exercise of any jurisdiction assigned to him or them in pursuance of this Act, be deemed to constitute a Court of the High Court of Justice; and, subject to any restrictions or conditions imposed by rules of Court, and to the power of transfer, any party to any cause or matter involving the trial of a question or issue of fact, or partly of fact and partly of law, may, with the leave of the Judge or Judges to whom or to whose Division the cause or matter is assigned, require the question or issue to be tried and determined by a Commissioner or Commissioners as aforesaid, or at sittings to be held in Dublin as herein-after in this Act mentioned, and such question or issue shall be tried and determined accordingly.
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