Small Debts, Westminster Act 1750
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1750 c. 42 |
(24 Geo. 2) C A P. XLII.
'W H E R E A S several Doubts have arisen in the Execution of an Act passed in the twenty-third Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part of the Dutchy of Lancaster which adjoineth thereto ; and the said Act has, in many Respects, been found insufficient to answer the Purposes thereby intended: And whereas Doubts have arisen, whether Attornies and Solicitors are subject to the Processes of the said Court:' Therefore, for explaining, amending, and making the said Act more effectual, May it please your most Excellent Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Personsadmitted as Attornies or Solicitors shall be, and they are hereby declared to be subject to all the Processes of the said Court of Requests for the City and Liberty ofWestminster , and that Part of the Dutchy of Lancaster which adjoineth thereto; any Thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
'II. And whereas the Commissioners nominated and appointed to put the said Act in Execution, are directed by the said Act to meet in three different Divisions, one Day in each Week: And whereas divers Mistakes and Inconveniencies have happened, for want of knowing the particular Bounds and Limits of the several Divisions or Districts:' For Remedy thereof, Be it enacted by the Authorityaforesaid, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day ofJune one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, so much of the said Act as relates to the dividing the said City and Liberty of Westminster , and that Part of the Dutchy of Lancaster which adjoineth thereto, into three Districts or Divisions, shall be, and is hereby repealed.
III Court to be held in two Divisions.
III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners nominated and appointed, or to be nominated and appointed, by virtue of the said Act, are hereby authorized and required to assemble, fit and hold the said Court in and for the said City and...
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