Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877

Saving of existing procedure of Courts when not inconsistent with this Act or rules.

67. Save as by this Act or by any rules of Court may be otherwise provided, all forms and methods of procedure which at the commencement of this Act were in force in any of the Courts whose jurisdiction is hereby transferred to the said High Court, and to the said Court of Appeal, respectively, under or by virtue of any law custom general orders or rules whatsoever, and which are not inconsistent with this Act or any rules of Court, may continue to be used and practised in the said High Court of Justice, and the said Court of Appeal, respectively, in such and the like cases, and for such and the like purposes, as those to which they would have been applicable in the respective Courts of which the jurisdiction is so transferred if this Act had not passed.