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HOUSE OF COMMONS COSTS TAXATION ACT 1847 - SECT 2

Parliamentary agent or solicitor, not to sue for costs in relation to any private bill in the House of Commons until one month after delivery of his bill.

2. No parliamentary agent or solicitor, nor any executor, administrator, or
assignee of any parliamentary agent or solicitor, shall commence or maintain
any action or suit for the recovery of any costs, charges, or expences in
respect of any proceedings in the House of Commons in any future session of
Parliament relating to any petition for a private bill, or private bill, or in
respect of complying with the standing orders of the said House relative
thereto, or in preparing, bringing in, and carrying the same through, or
opposing the same in, the House of Commons, until the expiration of one month
after such parliamentary agent or solicitor, or executor, administrator, or
assignee of such parliamentary agent or solicitor, has delivered unto the
party to be charged therewith, or sent by post to or left for him at his
counting-house, office of business, dwelling house, or last known place of
abode, a bill of such costs, charges, and expences, and which bill shall
either be subscribed with the proper hand of such parliamentary agent or
solicitor, or in the case of a partnership by any of the partners, either with
his own name or with the name of such partnership, or of the executor,
administrator, or assignee of such parliamentary agent or solicitor, or be
enclosed in or accompanied by a letter subscribed in like manner referring to
such bill: Provided always, that it shall not in any case be necessary, in the
first instance, for such parliamentary agent or solicitor, or the executor,
administrator, or assignee of such parliamentary agent or solicitor, in
proving a compliance with this Act, to prove the contents of the bill
delivered, sent, or left by him, but it shall be sufficient to prove that a
bill of costs, charges, and expences, subscribed in manner aforesaid, or
inclosed in or accompanied by such letter as aforesaid, was delivered, sent,
or left, in manner aforesaid; but nevertheless it shall be competent for the
other party to show that the bill so delivered, sent, or left was not such a
bill as constituted a bona8 fide compliance with this Act: Provided also, that
it shall be lawful for any judge of the superior courts of law or equity in
... Ireland ..., to authorize a parliamentary agent or solicitor to commence
an action or suit for the recovery of his costs, charges, and expences against
the party chargeable therewith, although one month has not expired from the
delivery of a bill as aforesaid, on proof to the satisfaction of the said
judge that there is probable cause for believing that such party is about to
quit that part of the United Kingdom in which such judge hath jurisdiction.

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