Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

Consolidated Court of Nisi Prius for the Trial of Issues arising in any of the Superior Courts.

CCXXXIV. The Nisi Prius Courts of the said Superior Courts of Common Law sitting at Dublin shall continue to be consolidated, and there shall be but One Common Court of Nisi Prius for the Trial at Dublin of Issues in Fact arising in any of the Courts, except as herein-after provided, which Court of Nisi Prius shall consist of One Judge or Baron of either of the said Superior Courts, to be chosen for that Purpose by the said Judges and Barons according to such Arrangement as they shall think proper, and in such Order of Rotation that each Court shall by One of its Judges or Barons take the Duty in Turn by Terms, and all Jurors, Witnesses, and other Persons shall be summoned or required to attend, and shall give their Attendance at or for the Trial of any Cause depending in any such Court, before such Judge as shall be sitting for the Trial thereof by virtue of this Act: Provided always, that all Causes intended to be tried at any Sittings at Nisi Prius at Dublin shall be entered for Trial with the Registrar of the Chief Judge of that Court of which One of the Judges is to sit, and all other Process and Proceedings for or relating to the Trials thereof shall be made and issued as herein-before required, but nevertheless the Trial of every Cause which shall be tried by virtue of this Act shall be entered and made of Record, as having been had and made before the Judge before whom such Canse shall happen to have been actually tried.