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Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842
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Limitations of Actions and Costs Act 1842
1842 CHAPTER 97
An Act to amend the Law relating to Double Costs, Notices of Action, Limitations of Actions, and Pleas of the General Issue, under certain Acts of Parliament.
[10th August 1842]
WHEREAS divers Acts of Parliament, Public, Local, and Personal, contain Enactments or Provisions relating to the Recovery of Double, Treble, or other Costs in certain Cases, and to the pleading of the General Issue and the giving any special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had for any Matter done in pursuance of or under the Authority of the said Acts, and to the giving of Notice of Action before any Action shall be commenced : And whereas it is expedient that the Law should be altered in such respects :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
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