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SHERIFFS ACT (IRELAND) 1725 - LONG TITLE



An Act for the better regulating the office of sheriffs, and for the
ascertaining their fees, and the fees for suing out their patents, and passing
their accounts.{1} N>> Ss.I V rep. by SLR (I) 1878; SLR (NI) 1953; 1969 c.30
(NI) s.132 sch.6 >On sheriff's death, sub-sheriff shall continue to act in his
name, till another sworn; [{2}VI. I F any sheriff of any County or County
Borough in Ireland{3} shall happen to die before the expiration or
determination of his year or before he be lawfully superseded in such case the
under-sheriff appointed under the Principal Act{4} shall execute the office of
such sheriff and all things belonging thereto in the name of the said deceased
sheriff until another sheriff be appointed and sworn in his place and the said
under-sheriff shall be answerable for the execution| of said office in regard
to all the duties which notwithstanding the appointment of an under-sheriff
under the Principal Act{4} the sheriff is to continue to discharge and to all
respects intents and purposes whatsoever during such interval as the sheriff
deceased would by law have been and shall have the same powers as the sheriff
deceased would have had if he had been living and the security given by the
under-sheriff under Section 4 of the Principal Act{4} shall stand and be a
security| to the King his heirs and successors and to all other persons
whomsoever for such under-sheriff's due performance of the duties of the
sheriff during such interval.] N>> S.VII rep. by SLR (I) 1878; SLR (NI) 1953;
1968 c.28 (NI) s.16 sch.4 >Appointment of under and deputy sheriff. <1840 c.105 


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