The county court statutes from 1846 to 1875 : the repealed sections being condensed with the sections of the Debtors' act, 1869, the Judicature act, 1873, and the Friendly Societies' act, 1875, and the new consolidated orders, 1875, forms, fees, and costs ...

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Preface

The plan of this book is very simple. It is to gather into one handy volume all the materials of Statutes^ Rales, Orders, Forms, Fees and Costs, that are required for practical and daily use by solicitors and advocates bringing or conducting cau^s in the County Courts. . With regard to the Statutes, fourteen in number, which have been passed since the foundation of the Courts in 1846, a method has been adopted which it is hoped will be as serviceable as it is simple. Every statute is printed, but to save the reader much trouble and some risk of confusion, those sections which are repealed and therefore useless have been otnitted, the marginal notes being, however, retained for the sake of clearness and continuity, while in every case a reference is given to the statute by which they are so repealed. Until these numerous Acts, amending and again amending each other, are consolidated into one Statute by Parliament, it seems impossible to do more than is here attempted.

To render the collection of Statutes still more complete, those sections of the Debtors' Act, 1S69, the Judicature Act, 1873, and the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, that closely aflfect the County Courts have been printed herein.

The New Consolidated Orders arc g^ven ver-

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batim^ and the author has added the cross references to the forms mentioned in the Rules which were omitted from the official copy for want of time.

The Rules of December, 1 875, and January, 1876, regulating Appeals, will also be found at pp. 14 and 230.

Every form that can possibly be required by the practitioner is given in full, those only being omitted which will only be printed for the use of the Registrar and High Bailiff in their own offices; but here again, to ensure completeness, the numbers and headings of the forms are retained.

The new Scales of Costs are printed entire, and as no Scale of Costs in the High Court necessary under Rule II. of Order 36, is given in the forms, a sketch of these has been drawn, and will be found at the end of the Practical Notes.

Every effort has been made to render the Index at once clear, complete, and exhaustive.

With regard to the Practical Notes, the Author hopes that as they are at least the outcome of many years^ study of, and experience in, County Court practice and procedure, so they may prove of some service to his brethren in the profession, to whom he offers his work, trusting that by their acknowledgment of his efforts, he may, at a future time when the new Procedure shall have become more settled, be able to produce in another edition, a practice more worthy of their appreciation and acceptance,

1, Gi-esham Buildings, Guildhall. ^\8t January^ 1876.