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In what courts proceedings shall be taken.
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40. Proceedings under the authority of this part of this Act shall be taken in the Civil Bill Courts herein-after mentioned: that is to say,
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(a.) Proceedings relating to the sale redemption or partition of any lands, or for enforcing any mortgage charge or lien upon any lands, or which pray an injunction to stay waste upon lands, shall be taken in the Civil Bill Court of the county in which the lands, or any part thereof, shall be situate:
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(c.) Proceedings for the administration of the assets of a deceased person shall be taken in the Civil Bill Court within the jurisdiction of which the deceased person had his last place of abode or place of business in Ireland, or within the jurisdiction of which the executors or administrators, or any of them, shall reside:
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(d.) Proceedings in partnership cases shall be taken in the Civil Bill Court within the jurisdiction of which the partnership business shall be or have been carried on, or in which the defendants, or any of them, shall reside or carry on business:
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(e.) Proceedings for the specific performance or for the reforming cancelling or delivering up of any agreement shall be taken in the Civil Bill Court within the jurisdiction of which the defendants, or any of them, shall reside, or have a place of business, or in which the property affected, or any part thereof, shall be situate:
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(f.) Proceedings under the Trustees’ Relief Acts, or under the Trustee Acts, or any of such Acts, shall be taken in the Civil Bill Court within the jurisdiction of which the persons making the application, or any of them, shall reside:
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(g.) Proceedings relating to infants shall be taken in the Civil Bill Court within the jurisdiction of which the infants, or any of them, shall reside:
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(h.) Proceedings not otherwise provided for shall be taken or instituted in the Civil Bill Court within the jurisdiction of which the defendants, or any of them shall reside or carry on business:
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Provided that if during the progress of any such suit, matter, or proceeding it shall be made to appear to the chairman that the same may be more conveniently prosecuted in some other Civil Bill Court, the chairman may, with the consent of the Lord Chancellor, transfer the same to such other Civil Bill Court, and thereupon the suit, matter, or proceeding shall proceed in such other Civil Bill Court.
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