Westminster Court of Requests Act 1836

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1836 c. cxxxvii
ANNO SEXTO & SEPTIMO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
cxxxvii.
An Act to repeal Two Acts of the Reign of King
George the Second for the Recovery of Small
Debts within the City and Liberty of Westminster,
and for granting more effectual Powers for that
Purpose. [19th August 1836.]
HERE AS an Act was passed in the Twenty-third Year of
the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
intituled An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery 0/230.2.0.27.
SmallmDebts
within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part
of the Duchy of Lancaster which adjoineth thereto: And whereas an
Act was passed in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His
Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to explain and 24
G.
2.
c.
42.
amend an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled ' An
' Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts
xvithin
the
1 City and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part of the Duchy ofLan-
' caster which adjoineth thereto,' and for making the said Act more
effectual: And whereas it would facilitate the Proceedings of the
said Court, and encourage.Trade within the said City and Liberty of
Westminster and that Part of the Duchy of Lancaster which ad-
joineth thereto, if the Provisions of the said recited Acts were con-
solidated, and better and more extensive Powers were granted for
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Cap.
cxxxvii.
the more speedy Recovery of Debts : May it therefore please Your
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 Parlia-
Hetited Acts ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, lhat from and
repealed. after the Tenth Day ofOctober next after the passing of this Act the
said recited Acts of* the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of
the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, and all and
every the Clauses, Powers, and Authorities therein contained, shall be
and the same are hereby repealed.
All Acts of II. Provided always nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That
Commission- an Acts, Judgments, Orders, and Decrees made or to be made by
forme" Acts tne Commissioners appointed by virtue of the said recited Acts or
to be valid, either of them on or before the said Tenth Day of
October,
and all
Acts,
Executions, Distresses, Imprisonments, Penalties, Forfeitures,
and Proceedings to be done, suffered, incurred, recovered, or execu-
ted in pursuance of such Judgments, Orders, and Decrees, or any
or either of them, shall be valid and effectual in the same Manner to
all Intents and Purposes as if the said recited Acts or either of them
had not been repealed or this Act had not passed, and may be
executed and enforced against all Persons liable thereto by the Com-
missioners and the Officers acting in
the.
Execution of this Act in
the same Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such Judgments,
Orders, and Decrees respectively had been made by the Commis-
sioners acting in the Execution and under the Authority of this
Act.
Commis- III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to and
sioners to
be
for au and every the Vestrymen and Parishioners of the several
appointed. an(j respective Parishes within the said City and Liberty of West-
minster and the said Part of the Duchy aforesaid, who have a Right
to assemble and meet in Vestry within their respective Parishes, and
they are hereby respectively empowered, arid required, to meet on
the Twentieth Day of
September
in the Year,of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-six, and so on the same Day in every
succeeding Year, provided the same shall not fall on a Sunday, and if
it shall, then upon, the next Day, at Eleven of the Clock in the Fore-
noon, in the several and respective Vestries in each of their respective
Parishes^ and nominate and assign in the whole the Number of Two
hundred and forty-two substantial and discreet Persons residing
within their respective Parishes, who are to be Commissioners of the
Court of Requests in and for the City and Liberty of Westminster
and that Part of the Duchy of Lancaster which adjoineth thereto;
which said Two hundred and forty-two Commissioners shall be
nominated and appointed by their respective Parishes in manner
following; that is to say, the Parish of Saint Margaret to nominate
and appoint Thirty of the said Persons, the Parish of Saint John the
Evangelist other Twenty of the said Persons, the Parish of Saint
James other Forty-two of the said Persons, the Parish of Saint
George Hanover Square other Thirty of the said Persons, the Parish
of Saint Anne other Twenty-four of the. said Persons, the Parish of
Saint Martin-in-the-Fields tohcr Forty of the said Persons, the Parish
of
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of Saint
Clement
Danes, as well within the Liberty of Westminster as
without, other Twenty-four of the said Persons, the Parish of Saint
Mary-le-Strand other Twelve of the said Persons, and the Parish of
Saint Paul Covent Garden other Twenty of the said Persons; and
the Churchwardens of each respective Parish for the Time being, or
One of them, shall, within Two Days after such Appointment by the
Vestrymen and Parishioners as aforesaid, cause Two Lists to be made
out of the several Persons so respectively nominated and appointed
as aforesaid, and shall cause one of the said Lists, or a true Copy
thereof,
to be fixed or stuck up on the Church Door of each respec-
tive Parish, and shall deliver or cause to be delivered the other of
the said Lists to the Clerk of the said Court or Commissioners,
who shall forthwith cause a Copy of such Lists to be made and
stuck up in the Place or Court where the said Commissioners shall
assemble ; which said Persons so nominated and returned by and for
the said several Parishes respectively as aforesaid from Time to Time
shall be and they are hereby declared, constituted', and appointed
Commissioners to hear and determine all such Matters of Debt as are
hereafter mentioned; and such Commissioners are hereby constituted
and appointed a Court of Justice by the Name of " The Court of
Requests for the City and Liberty of Westminster and that Part
of the Duchy of Lancaster which adjoineth thereto"; and the said
Court is hereby authorized and empowered to make such Orders,
Judgments, and Decrees in the Matters aforesaid, and to award Exe-
cution or Attachment thereupon, with or without Costs, against the
Goods and Chattels or against the Body or Bodies of all and every
the Person or Persons against whom any such Order, Judgment, or
Decree shall be given, as shall be consistent with the Laws and
Statutes of that Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, and this Act.
IV. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall Commission-
and they are hereby empowered to meet and to hold the said Court
ers
toappoint
in some convenient Place or House situated within the said City P'^eand
and Liberty of Westminster, to be appointed for that Purpose from Piftl, "r,.
_. „,» . . _, 7 i ii i i i i i m- „,. holding the
Time to Time ; and the Court shall be holden at such Time or Times Court.
and on such-Day or Days in every Week as the said Commissioners
shall think fit to order and appoint: Provided always, that the Office The Clerk's
of the Clerk of such Commissioners shall be open daily (except °,fice t0 °c
Sundays) from Ten of the Clock in the Morning until One of the 0|)cn dailv-
Clock in the Afternoon, for the granting of Summonses, Subpoenas,
Warrants, Attachments, and Precepts, and for other Purposes relative
to the Business of the said Court; and provided also, that the said Court
to
be
Commissioners shall and are hereby required to hold the said Court helJ T(w'ce
for the hearing of all Causes and Actions at least on Two Days in "
every Week.
a Week.
missioners.
V. And for the more orderly and regular proceeding in the said Clerk tosum-
Court, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the m°".Com-
said Chief Clerk (who is hereby empowered and required from Time to
Time so to do) shall, within Two Days next after such several Lists shall
be returned to him as aforesaid, summon or cause to be summoned
the first Seven Persons named in each List containing Forty-two or
Forty,

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