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Limitation of Actions.
Costs.
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XXVI. And be it further enacted, That no Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for any Thing done by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, until Twenty-one Days Notice thereof in Writing shall have been given to the said Commissioners, nor after a sufficient Satisfaction or Tender thereof hath been made to the Party or Parties aggrieved, nor after Six Calendar Months next after the Fact committed; and every such Action shall be brought in some of His Majesty’s Courts of Record at Dublin, and shall be laid in the County of Dublin and not elsewhere; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if the same shall appear so to be done, or if such Action or Suit shall be brought after the Time herein-before limited for bringing the same, or shall be brought without Twenty-one Days Notice thereof, or shall be brought in any other County or Place, or after a sufficient Satisfaction made or tendered as aforesaid, that then the jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuited, or suffer a Discontinuance of his, her or their Action or Actions, or if a Verdict should pass against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall have Double Costs, and shall have such Remedy for recovering the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have for Costs of Suit in any other Cases of Law.
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