Common Law Procedure (Ireland) Act, 1821

Copies of pleadings, &c. shall be made in the respective offices of the courts, &c. under penalty of 20l.

24. It shall not be lawful for any officer of any of the said several courts [1] to cause or direct or knowingly to permit any copy of any pleading, affidavit, order, judgment, or other thing belonging to their respective offices, or any part thereof, to be made in any other place or by any other person than in the proper office of such officer, and by a writing clerk employed by such officer in such office; and every such officer shall be responsible for the accuracy of every copy so made in his office, and for the same being duly compared with the original from which it shall be made; and every such officer who shall cause or direct or knowingly permit any copy to be made contrary to this Act, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

[1 The civil side of the court of King's Bench, the court of Common Pleas, or the common law side of the court of Exchequer in Ireland.