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CIVIL BILL COURT, IRELAND.
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importing the masculine gender shall include females; and the following terms (if not inconsistent with the context or subject-matter) shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them; that is to say:—

"Action" shall mean and include any proceeding commenced by ordinary Civil Bill, or in ejectment, or replevin.

"Affidavit" shall include statutory declarations, affirmations, and attestations upon honour; and the word "sworn" shall include declared and affirmed according to statute and attested upon honour.

Clear days" shall mean that in all cases in which any particular number of "clear days" is prescribed, the same shall be reckoned exclusive both of the first and last day.

"Clerk of the Peace" shall mean and include Clerk of the Crown and Peace, Clerk of the Peace, or Deputy Clerk of the Peace, or person for the time being lawfully acting as Clerk of the Peace.

"County Court" shall mean the Civil Bill Court having jurisdiction in the action, suit, or matter.

"Equity suit" shall mean any proceeding taken under any one or more of the provisions of the 33rd section of the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, or any Act extending or amending the same.

"Suit" shall mean an "Equity suit."

"Judge" shall mean the "County Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions" or "Recorder."

"Matter" shall mean any proceeding commenced by petition. Ordinary Civil Bill" shall include and mean any Civil Bill except in Ejectment, or Replevin, or an Equity suit.

"Party" shall mean party to any action, suit, or matter, or a person served with notice of or in any action, suit, or matter, and shall include body politic or corporate.

"Person" shall extend to and include any body politic or corporate.

Registrar" shall mean the Registrar or any person for the time being lawfully acting as the Registrar of a County Court.

"Return day" shall mean in ordinary Civil Bills, ejectments and replevins the first day of the Sessions in each town, and in Equity suits the first day appointed for holding Equity Sessions.

"Trial" shall mean the trial of any action, suit, or matter, or any hearing thereof.

ORDER I.

Parties.

1. Where one or more of several persons jointly liable is or are sued and the other or others so liable and not sued reside out

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