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Sheriffs shall recover double costs in actions against their under sheriffs, &c. for breach of duty.
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2. Whenever any sheriff, or any person or persons who shall have been a sheriff or joint sheriff in Ireland, shall obtain judgment in any action against any person who shall then be or shall have been his or their under sheriff, or against the surety or sureties or any of the sureties of such under sheriff, such surety or sureties having become such after the commencement of this Act, for or by reason or in respect of any breach of the duty of such office, or for or by reason or in respect of any malfeazance, misfeazance, nonfeazance, or neglect therein, then and in every such case the plantiff in every such action shall be entitled to double costs of suit to be included in such judgment, and such plaintiff shall for that purpose be entitled, under the direction of the court in which such action shall be brought to suggest on the record that such action was brought for such cause, if the same shall not sufficiently appear on the pleadings. [Rep. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97. s. 2.]
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