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Actions against justices for acts done in execution of duty.
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[1.] Every action hereafter to be brought against any justice of the peace in Ireland in any of her Majesty’s superior courts of law at Dublin for any act done by him in the execution of his duty as such justice, with respect to any matter within his jurisdiction as such justice, shall be an action on the case as for a tort; and in the declaration it shall be expressly alleged that such act was done maliciously, and without reasonable and probable cause; and if at the trial of any such action, . . . the plaintiff shall fail to prove such allegation, he shall be nonsuit, or a verdict shall be given for the defendant.
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