Judgments (Ireland) Act, 1844

Judgments, &c. not to be docketed, re-docketed, or revived under provisions of recited Acts after 1st Novembe 1844.

Re-docketing and revival books to be closed and handed over to officer appointed under this Act, and to be deemed books under this Act.

Judgments re-docketed or revived under 9 Geo. 4. c. 35. to be deemed to be registered under this Act.

[1.] From and after the first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four no judgment of any superior court of record, or rule for such judgment, shall be docketed or entered under the provisions of the said Act of the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second; and from and after that day no such judgment, nor any revival of any such judgment, shall be re-docketed or entered under the said provisions of the said Act of the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth; and all books of or for such re-docketings or entries under either of the said Acts shall on the first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four be finally closed, without prejudice to the operation of any judgment which shall have been in that time docketed and entered, or re-docketed or entered in the book of revivals, under the provisions of either of the said recited Acts, except so far as any such judgment may be affected by the provisions herein-after contained; and upon the close of the said first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four all the said re-docketing and revival books kept under the provisions of the said last mentioned Act in every of the said superior courts of common law in Ireland shall, by the officer having in each of such courts respectively the custody of the same, be handed over to the officer to be appointed under this Act; and such books, when so banded over, shall be forthwith deposited by the said last-mentioned officer in the office to be established under this Act, and shall be considered as part of the books to which access is to be had as herein-after provided; and all judgments which have already been or on or before the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-four shall be re-docketed or entered as revived in the said books, under the provisions of the said Act of the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, shall be deemed to be registered under the provisions of this Act, and shall operate from the time of such re-docketing or entry after the revival precisely as if the same had been registered under the authority of this Act, but with the benefit of its actual priority as the same existed before the passing of this Act, and shall be subject to the provision herein-after contained with respect to the re-registering.