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        Administration of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland) 1737 (c.6)
        Introductory Text
        Main body
        [I.] All proceedings in courts of justice, patents, charters, pardons, commissions, &c. shall be in English. and in legible character, not in court-hand,and with usual abbreviations in English, and figures.Penalty £20 to prosecutor.
        II. But names of writs, process or technical words, may be expressed as commonly used, so as not in court-hand. Prosecutions to be in three months.
        III, IV. . . .
        V. Commissions and proceedings in admiralty may be certified in Latin.
        VI. . . .
        VII,VIII. . . .

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