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BRITISH LAW ASCERTAINMENT ACT - SECT 5

Interpretation of terms.

5. In the construction of this Act, the word "action" shall include every
judicial proceeding instituted in any court, civil, criminal, or
ecclesiastical; and the words "Superior Courts" shall include, in England, the
Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, the Lord Chancellor, the Lords
Justices, the Master of the Rolls or any Vice Chancellor, the Judge of the
Court of Admiralty, the Judge Ordinary of the Court for Divorce and
Matrimonial Causes, and the Judge of the Court of Probate; in Scotland, the
High Court of Justiciary, and the Court of Session acting by either of its
divisions; in Ireland, the Superior Courts of Law at Dublin, the Master of the
Rolls, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and in any other part of Her
Majesty's dominions, the Superior Courts of Law or Equity therein.

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