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CIVIL BILL COURT, IRELAND.
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the costs payable to the plaintiff in the suit, if not previously paid.

Order XXIV.

Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887.[1]

1. When an ejectment is brought in any Civil Bill Court for the non-payment of the rent of a holding for which a judicial rent has not been fixed, the defendant having a right to apply to have a fair rent of such holding fixed, if he intends to apply to such Court to fix a fair rent for the holding, shall within six days after the service of the ejectment upon him serve a notice upon the plaintiff in such ejectment of such his intention. Such notice shall be in the form in the schedule hereto.

2. Service of the notice mentioned in the preceding rule upon the solicitor for the plaintiff at the address given by him on such ejectment, shall be the proper mode of serving such plaintiff, and such notice may be served either by being delivered to such solicitor at such address or else to some person there who shall be in his employment, or by being transmitted to such address by a registered letter. The time of service of such notice in the last-mentioned case shall be deemed to be the time when such notice should by ordinary course of post reach such address.

3. Two copies of the notice to fix a fair rent shall be delivered to the Clerk of the Peace of the county in which the holding is situate, four days at least before the holding of the Civil Bill Court at which such notice is to be disposed of.

4. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Peace to enter such notice in the ejectment book along with the ejectment, and to record in such ejectment book any order made by the Judge with reference to the rent of the holding. In all other respects such application and the proceedings thereon shall be dealt with and treated as if the notice were an originating notice to fix a fair rent under the provisions of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881,[2] and the rules made thereunder.

5. The summary of the notice mentioned in the 7th section of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887,[1] shall be in the form in the schedule hereto, or as near thereto as may be. The manner of posting such summary on a police barrack shall be by affixing same to the notice board on such barrack or on some other conspicuous place on the front of such barrack. The manner of posting such summary on a court-house shall be by affixing same to the door of such court-house or some other conspicuous place on the front of such court-house. The time within which such summary shall be so posted shall be within fourteen days after sending the registered letter containing a copy of the said

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 50 & 51 Vict. c. 38.
  2. ↑ 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49.
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