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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 75

Time within which debt proceedings may be commenced.

75.(1) Where a claim is for the payment of the balance of an account, or for
part of a sum alleged to be due and the remainder thereof has been abandoned
in order to bring the claim within the jurisdiction of a
court of summary jurisdiction, a decree for recovery of the sum claimed or
part of it or of dismissal shall, subject to the right of any party to appeal
under Part XIII, be a full discharge of all demands in respect of the account
for the balance of which proceedings were brought or for the whole of the
claim as the case may be.

(2) In this section "claim" includes a set-off or counterclaim.

Abandonment of so much of claim as is in excess of jurisdiction.



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