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SHERIFFS ACT (IRELAND) 1725

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of his year or before he be lawfully superseded in such case the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