Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876

Repeal and Definitions

24 Repeal of certain sections of the Church Discipline Act and of the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts

Section sixteen of the Act for better enforcing Church Discipline, passed in the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-six, and sections twenty, twenty-one, and fifty-five of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, and section two of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875, shall be repealed (with the exception of so much of section two as declares the day on which that Act is to commence).

25 Definitions

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following expressions have the meaning herein-after respectively assigned to them ; that is to say,

• " High judicial office " means any of the following offices ; that is to say,

  • The office of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain or Ireland, or of paid Judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, or of Judge of one of Her Majesty's superior courts of Great Britain and Ireland:

• " Superior courts of Great Britain and Ireland" means and includes,—

  • As to England, Her Majesty's High Court of Justice and Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, and the superior courts of law and equity in England as they existed before the constitution of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice; and

  • As to Ireland, the superior courts of law and equity at Dublin; and

  • As to Scotland, the Court of Session :

• " Error " includes a writ of error or any proceedings in or by way of error.