Shannon Navigation Act, 1839

Awards and Judgments to be enrolled.

XXIII. ‘And whereas it is expedient that all Awards heretofore made by the said Commissioners appointed under the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and all such Awards and Judgments as shall be made under the Provisions of this Act, should be made obligatory and conclusive;’ be it therefore enacted, That all Awards heretofore made as aforesaid, and all Awards and Judgments which shall be at any Time made or given by the said Commissioners to be appointed under this Act, shall, within Three Months after the passing of this Act, or after the same shall be respectively made or given, be enrolled in the Rolls Office of Her Majesty’s High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and Copies thereof respectively shall be good and sufficient Evidence thereof respectively in any Court of Law or Equity whatsoever; and the said Awards and Judgments respectively shall, immediately after the Enrolment thereof, save as by this Act otherwise provided, be binding and conclusive to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, upon the said Commissioners, and upon the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and all Bodies Politic or Corporate, Infants, Lunatics, Idiots, Femes Covert, Tenants for Life or in Tail, and all Persons under any Legal Disability whatsoever, and all and every Person or Persons whomsoever, his, her, or their Heirs, Successors, Executors, and Administrators, having or claiming to have any Estate, Right, Trust, Use, or Interest in, to, or out of the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters, or Things, included in or affected by the said Awards or Judgments, either in Possession or Reversion, Remainder or Expectancy, or in any Manner whatsoever, or in any Charge, Lien, or Incumbrance thereon respectively; and no Objection for want of Form shall be allowed to any such Award or Judgment, nor shall the same be removeable by Certiorari or other Process into any of the Superior Courts or any other Court, any Law or Statute to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.