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| Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
| 1692 | Affidavits | For taking affidavits in the country, to be made use of in the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and exchequer. | 4 William & Mary c.4 |
| 1692 | Frauds and perjuries | To prevent frauds and perjuries. | Not Enacted |
| 1695 | Tenure of judges' employment | That the judges may hereafter hold their places quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1695 | Reviving expired statutes | For reviving two statutes lately expired and making them perpetual, and for avoiding unnecessary suits and delays. | 7 William III c.7 |
| 1695 | Sheriffs' accounts | For the more easy discharging of sheriffs upon their accounts, and from being justices of the peace. | 7 William III c.13 |
| 1695 | Special bails | For taking special bails in the country. | 7 William III c.18 |
| 1695 | County palatine of Tipperary | Concerning fines in the county palatine of Tipperary. | 7 William III c.20 |
| 1695 | County palatine of Tipperary | For granting tales on trials to be had in the court of the county palatine of Tipperary before the seneschal. | 7 William III c.19 |
| 1695 | Abrogating court of Castle Chamber | For abrogating the court commonly called the court of Castle Chamber in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1695 | Distraining for rent | For the more speedy and effectual proceeding upon distresses and avowries for rent. | 7 William III c.22 |
| 1695 | Vexatious arrests | For the prevention of vexations and oppressions by arrests, and of delays in suits of law. | 7 William III c.25 |
| 1697 | Judgments on estates of infants | To extend judgments, recognizances and statutes on estates of infants. | Not Enacted |
| 1697 | Vexatious suits | To prevent frivolous and vexatious law suits, and giving remedy to the parties grieved to recover their costs at law in certain cases where heretofore no costs were given. | 9 William III c.10 |
| 1697 | Vexatious suits | That costs may be had in some cases which are not provided for by the bill entitled, an act to prevent frivolous and vexatious law suits, and giving remedy to the parties grieved to recover their costs at law in certain cases where heretofore no costs were given. | Not Enacted |
| 1697 | Vexatious delays in actions and suits | For avoiding of vexatious delays caused by removing actions and suits out of inferior courts. | 9 William III c.13 |
| 1697 | Enabling lessees for years to serve on juries | To enable lessees for years to serve on juries. | Not Enacted |
| 1698 | Arbitration | For determining differences by arbitration. | 10 William III c.14 |
| 1698 | Process of law | To restrain persons from holding pleas returning writs or other process of law within this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1703 | Officers of courts acting as attorneys | To restrain the officers and clerks of law and equity from practising as attorneys in the same court whereof they are officers or clerks respectively. | Not Enacted |
| 1703 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For declaring the qualifications of persons to be put into the commission of the peace, and for being sheriffs. | Not Enacted |
| 1703 | Sheriffs' accounts | For the more easy passing of sheriffs' accounts. | Not Enacted |
| 1705 | Qualification of justices of the peace | Declaring the qualifications of persons to be put into the commission of the peace and for being made sheriffs. | Not Enacted |
| 1705 | Vexatious suits by paupers | To prevent vexatious suits by paupers. | Not Enacted |
| 1707 | Justices of the peace | For the better regulation of justices of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1707 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For qualifying persons to be justices of the peace and sheriffs. | Not Enacted |
| 1707 | Expense and delays in law suits | For preventing expense and delays in suits in law and equity. | Not Enacted |
| 1709 | Jurors | For the better regulating of jurors. | Not Enacted |
| 1709 | Terms of office of sheriffs | For explaining and amending several statutes for prohibiting sheriffs, under-sheriffs and sheriffs’ clerks from officiating as under-sheriffs or sheriffs’ clerks more than one year. | Not Enacted |
| 1709 | Vexatious suits by paupers | To prevent vexatious suits prosecuted by paupers. | Not Enacted |
| 1709 | Assizes and sessions | To prevent delays of proceedings at the assizes and sessions. | 8 Anne c.5 |
| 1709 | Tenure of judges' employment | For explaining and amending an act made in the 10th year of King Henry VII, concerning the granting judicial employments. | Not Enacted |
| 1709 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For qualifying persons to be justices of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1710 | Writs of error | For limiting certain times within which writs of error shall be brought for the reversing fines, common recoveries and ancient judgments. | Not Enacted |
| 1711 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For qualifying persons to be justices of the peace in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1711 | Terms of office of sheriffs | For explaining and amending several statutes for prohibiting under-sheriffs and sheriffs clerks from officiating for more than one year. | 11 Anne c.8 |
| 1713 | Summary hearings for small debts | For the amending and continuing the act for recovery of small debts in a summary way, before the judges of the assize. | Not Enacted |
| 1715 | Vexatious suits | To prevent frivolous and vexatious suits in law. | Not Enacted |
| 1717 | Writs of mandamus and quo warrantos | For rendering the proceedings upon writs of mandamus, and informations in the nature of a quo warranto, more speedy and effectual, and for more easy trying and determining the rights of offices and franchises in corporations and boroughs. | Not Enacted |
| 1717 | Sheriffs' accounts | For the more easy passing sheriffs accounts. | Not Enacted |
| 1717 | Writs of error | For limiting certain times within which writs of error shall be brought for reversing of fines and common recoveries. | 4 George I c.10 |
| 1717 | Repealing the little oath | For taking away the oath, commonly called the little oath, on members of corporations, by the new rules. | 4 George I c.3 |
| 1717 | Vexatious suits | For explaining and amending an act of parliament made in the 9th year of his late majesty King William entitled an act for preventing frivolous and vexatious law suits, and giving remedy to the parties grieved to recover their costs at law in certain cases where heretofore no costs were given. | 4 George I c.13 |
| 1719 | Writs of error | To prevent delays in writs of error, and for the further amendment of the law. | 6 George I c.6 |
| 1719 | Abbreviating Michaelmas term | For abbreviating Michaelmas term, and settling the commencement thereof. | 6 George I c.1 |
| 1723 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For better qualifying persons to be justices of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1723 | Sheriffs' accounts | For the more easy passing sheriffs accounts. | Not Enacted |
| 1723 | Trials at law and proceedings at assizes | For regulating trials at law and proceedings at assizes. | Not Enacted |
| 1729 | For better discovery of judgements in courts at Dublin, and for greater security of purchasers | For the better discovery of judgements in the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and exchequer, at Dublin, and for the greater security of purchasers. | 3 George II c.7 |
| 1731 | English languge to be used in courts of justice | That all proceedings in courts of justice within this kingdom shall be in the English language. | Not Enacted |
| 1731 | Juries | For the better regulating of juries. | Not Enacted |
| 1733 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For the better qualification of the justices of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1735 | Juries | For the better regulation of juries. | 9 George II c.3 |
| 1735 | Assigning of judgements, and distraining for rent | For the more effectual assigning of judgements, and for the more speedy recovery of rents by distress. | 9 George II c.5 |
| 1735 | Use of English in courts of justice | That all proceedings in courts of justice within this kingdom shall be in the English language. | Not Enacted |
| 1737 | English languge to be used in courts of justice | That all proceedings in courts of justice within this kingdom shall be in the English language. | 11 George II c.6 |
| 1737 | Sheriffs' courts and other inferior courts | For the better regulating of sheriffs' courts, and other inferior courts. | Not Enacted |
| 1737 | Enabling courts to use affidavits taken in England, and regulating office of six clerks | To enable the several courts of law and equity in this kingdom to make use of affidavits, taken before any judge of any of the courts of Westminster, or before the any of the masters of the high court of chancery in that part of Great Britain, called England, and for regulating the office of the six clerks of the high court of chancery of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1739 | Juries | To continue and amend an act made in the 9th year of the reign of his present majesty, entitled, an act for the better regulating of juries. | 13 George II c.5 |
| 1739 | Fees of lawyers | For regulating the fees of lawyers. | Not Enacted |
| 1745 | Juries | For continuing and amending the several acts for the better regulating of juries. | 19 George II c.10 |
| 1745 | Common recoveries | For amending the law in relation to common recoveries. | Not Enacted |
| 1747 | Juries | For amending the several acts for the better regulating of juries. | 21 George II c.6 |
| 1749 | Against contentious suits | For the ease in pleading troublesome and contentious suits and complaints, prosecuted against justices of the peace, magistrates, constables, and all other peace officers, for the lawful execution of their office. | Not Enacted |
| 1749 | Protection of sheriffs against neglects of their clerks, etc. | For the better securing the persons who have served, or hereafter shall serve, in the office of sheriff in this kingdom, against the defaults and neglects of their clerks, sub-sheriffs and attorneys. | 23 George II c.13 |
| 1755 | Juries | For better regulating of juries. | 29 George II c.6 |
| 1755 | Terms of office of sheriffs | To supply the defect of an act, passed in the 10th year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, entitled, an act for explaining and amending several statutes for prohibiting under-sheriffs and sheriffs clerks from officiating as sub-sheriffs or sheriffs clerks for more than one year. | 29 George II c.15 |
| 1757 | Malicious informations in court of king's bench | To prevent malicious informations in the court of king's bench. | Not Enacted |
| 1759 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges commissions quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1759 | Justices of the peace | Relative to the justices of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1761 | Assigning of judgements, and distraining for rent | To perpetuate with amendments a clause in an act passed in the 9th year of his late majesty King George II entitled an act for the more effectual assigning of judgments, and for the more speedy recovery of rents by distress. | 1 George III c.3 |
| 1761 | Vexatious suits in equity | To prevent vexatious suits in equity, to stop proceedings at law. | Not Enacted |
| 1761 | Regulating proceedings in courts of equity and courts of law | To regulate proceedings in courts of equity in injunction causes, and on cross bills, and to regulate the proceedings in courts of law. | Not Enacted |
| 1763 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges commissions quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1763 | Vexatious arrests | For preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests. | Not Enacted |
| 1763 | Attornies | For better regulating the admission and practice of attornies. | Not Enacted |
| 1765 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making the offices of judges quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1765 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For fixing a qualification for the office of a justice of the peace in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1767 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges commissions quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1767 | Tenure of judges' employment | To repeal an act entitled an act that the chancellor and treasurer, judges of the king's bench and common pleas, the chief and second baron of the exchequer, the clerk or master of the rolls, and all officers, accountants, to have their offices but only at the king's will and pleasure. | Not Enacted |
| 1767 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges commissions continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1771B | Ejectments for non-payment of rent | For the amendment of the law in respect of ejectments for non-payment of rent. | Not Enacted |
| 1771B | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges commissions quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1771B | Touching office of master of rolls | Touching the office of master of the rolls, and the proceeding of the high court of chancery. | Not Enacted |
| 1773 | Attornies | For the better regulation of the admission and practice of attornies. | 13 & 14 George III c.23 |
| 1773 | Custodiams | For the amendment of the law in respect to custodiams and other matters. | Not Enacted |
| 1773 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges' commissions continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1773 | For remedy of subject | For providing an adequate remedy for the subject upon special cases made for the opinions of the courts of law on trials by nisi prius or at bar, and for the better security of persons obtaining verdicts in ejectment. | Not Enacted |
| 1775 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges' commissions continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1775 | Courts of equity | For regulating the proceedings of courts of equity in injunction cases. | Not Enacted |
| 1775 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making the commissions of the judges of this kingdom to continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1777 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges' commissions continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1779 | Expense and delays in law suits | To remedy the great charge and delay of suits at law. | Not Enacted |
| 1779 | Vexatious arrests | To prevent vexatious and frivolous arrests, and for other purposes. | 19 & 20 George III c.38 |
| 1779 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making the commissions of the judges to continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1779 | Custodiams | For the amendment of the laws respecting custodiams. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Trials by nisi prius in Dublin | For enlarging the time for trials by nisi prius in the city of Dublin and county of Dublin, and for making the process of the court of exchequer more effectual against persons who, being served therewith, refuse to appear. | 21 & 22 George III c.18 |
| 1781 | Attornies | To explain and amend an act passed in the 13th and 14th years of his majesty's reign entitled an act for the better regulation of the admission and practice of attornies. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Relief of sheriffs from whom prisoners for debt rescued | For the relief of sheriffs from whom prisoners for debt shall be rescued in their removal by virtue of writs of habeas corpus in such cases where the said sheriffs shall appear to have been guilty of no neglect or default. | 21 & 22 George III c.34 |
| 1781 | Attornies | To amend the laws relative to the practice of attornies, and to the mode of recovering their demands against their clients. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Juries | To regulate the attendance of persons returned to serve on grand and petty juries. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Vexatious arrests | To explain and amend an act entitled an act to prevent vexatious and frivolous arrests, and for other purposes. | 21 & 22 George III c.61 |
| 1781 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making the commissions of judges to continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Tenure of judges' employment and impartial administration of justice | For securing the independency of judges and the impartial administration of justice. | 21 & 22 George III c.50 |
| 1781 | Redress of erroneous judgements | For redress of erroneous judgements, orders and decrees. | 21 & 22 George III c.49 |
| 1781 | Summary hearings for small debts | For amending the several acts made in this kingdom for recovery of small debts in a summary way before the judges of assize. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Barristers | To regulate the admissions of barristers-at-law. | 21 & 22 George III c.32 |
| 1783 | Recognizances | For the furtherance of justice, by rendering more effectual recognizances to be taken for the king, for the appearance of parties at any session of oyer and terminer, or gaol delivery, or at any quarter sessions, or other general session of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1783 | Redress of erroneous judgements | For redress of erroneous judgments. | Not Enacted |
| 1783 | Vexatious arrests | For the relief of his majesty's subjects in cases of frivolous or vexatious arrests. | Not Enacted |
| 1783 | Regulation of gaols | For altering, amending and rendering more effectual the laws now in being for regulating and managing the public gaols and prisons throughout this kingdom. | 23 & 24 George III c.41 |
| 1785 | Payments to lord chancellor and chief judges | For granting the sum of £3,000 to the lord chancellor and chief judges for the purposes therein mentioned. | 25 George III c.24 |
| 1785 | Qualification of sheriffs of counties | For ascertaining the qualification of sheriffs of counties at large. | Not Enacted |
| 1785 | Distraining for rent | For rendering more effectual the remedy by distress for rent. | Not Enacted |
| 1785 | Summary hearings for small debts | For amending the several acts made in this kingdom for recovery of small debts in a summary way before the judges of assize. | Not Enacted |
| 1785 | Vexatious injunctions | For preventing vexatious injunctions to stay proceedings at law, and for giving costs to defendants in courts of equity in certain cases. | 25 George III c.51 |
| 1785 | Green wax process | To make more effectual and beneficial the process commonly called green wax process. | Not Enacted |
| 1786 | Payments to lord chancellor and chief judges | For granting the sum of £3,000 to the lord chancellor and chief judges for the purposes therein mentioned. | 26 George III c.49 |
| 1787 | Accountant general in courts of chancery and exchequer | For the better dispatch of business in the offices of the accountant general in the courts of chancery and exchequer respectively. | Not Enacted |
| 1787 | Payments to lord chancellor and chief judges | For granting the sum of £6,000 to the lord chancellor and chief judges for the purposes therein mentioned. | 27 George III c.19 |
| 1788 | Registry of baptisms, marriages and burials | For the establishing an accurate and correct registry of baptisms, marriages and burials in cities and great towns in the realm of Ireland, for rendering the same authentic, and for providing and procuring meet and convenient places of public interment, in addition or auxiliary to those now in use, where the same may be judged necessary. | Not Enacted |
| 1788 | Payments to lord chancellor and chief judges | For granting the sum of £6,000 to the lord chancellor and chief judges for the purposes therein mentioned. | 28 George III c.20 |
| 1789 | Payments to lord chancellor and chief judges | For granting the sum of £6,000 to the lord chancellor and chief judges for the purposes therein mentioned. | 29 George III c.35 |
| 1789 | Attornies, solicitors and proctors not to be justices of peace | To incapacitate attornies, solicitors and proctors from acting as justices of the peace. | Not Enacted |
| 1790A | Manor courts | To explain and amend the laws relative to manor courts. | Not Enacted |
| 1790A | Down survey as evidence | For making certain copies of the maps of the Down Survey evidence. | Not Enacted |
| 1791 | Vexatious arrests | To prevent vexatious arrests, and proceedings in actions of slander. | 31 George III c.32 |
| 1791 | Barristers | To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act to regulate the admission of barristers-at-law. | Not Enacted |
| 1791 | Assistant barristers | To amend the laws respecting assistant barristers of the sessions of the peace. | 31 George III c.29 |
| 1791 | Summary hearings for small debts | For the amendment of an act of the 2nd of George I, entitled, an act for reviving and amending an act for recovery of small debts in a summary way before the judges of assize. | Not Enacted |
| 1791 | Trials by nisi prius in Dublin | For explaining and amending an act, entitled, an act for enlarging the time for trials by nisi prius in the city of Dublin and county of Dublin. | 31 George III c.30 |
| 1791 | Forfeited recognizances, and green wax process | To discharge such recognizances entered into for appearance and prosecution of offenders, as were forfeited before the 18th of January in the year 1787, and for more effectually executing the green wax process. | 31 George III c.25 |
| 1792 | King’s Inns | For confirming the powers of the Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, and to repeal an act, entitled, an act to regulate the admission of barristers-at-law. | 32 George III c.18 |
| 1792 | County courts | For abridging the jurisdiction of the county courts. | Not Enacted |
| 1793 | Justices of the peace, and indemnity of constables | For rendering justices of the peace more safe in the execution of their office, and for indemnifying constables and others acting in obedience to their warrants. | Not Enacted |
| 1793 | Vexatious arrests | To prevent frivolous and vexatious arrests, and for regulating the mode of putting in bail to arrests made on mesne process. | Not Enacted |
| 1794 | Courts of king's bench and common pleas | To render the process of his majesty's courts of king's bench and common pleas in this kingdom more beneficial and effectual. | Not Enacted |
| 1794 | Juries | For the better regulation of juries. | Not Enacted |
| 1795 | Commissioners of oyer and terminer in Co. Dublin | To enable commissioners of oyer and terminer for the county of Dublin to hold their sessions at the Four Courts on the Inns Quay, in the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
| 1795 | Trials by nisi prius | For regulating the filing of judges reports on trials at nisi prius, and for the amendment of the law touching bills of exceptions. | Not Enacted |
| 1795 | Confirming grants under great seal of England | For confirming grants heretofore made by patents under the great seal of England. | 35 George III c.39 |
| 1796A | Rendering persons convicted of petty larceny competent witnesses | To render persons convicted of petty larceny competent witnesses. | 36 George III c.29 |
| 1796A | Affidavits in public accounts | For regulating the admission of affidavits accounting for public money at assizes. | Not Enacted |
| 1796A | Vexatious replevins of distress taken for rent | To prevent vexatious replevins of distress taken for rent. | 36 George III c.38 |
| 1796A | Sheriffs' courts | To limit the jurisdiction of sheriffs in their county courts, and of other inferior courts. | 36 George III c.39 |
| 1796B | Galway sheriffs | For the relief of the sheriffs of the county of the town of Galway, and to enable officers of the exchequer to examine the accounts of the late tellers of the exchequer, and to make certain allowances therein. | Not Enacted |
| 1798 | Administration of justice | For further securing the impartial administration of justice. | Not Enacted |
| 1800 | Qualification of sheriffs of and magistrates | For ascertaining the proper qualifications of sheriffs and for magistrates in the kingdom of Ireland. | Not Enacted |
| 1800 | Redress of erroneous judgements | For the more speedy correction of erroneous judgments given in the courts of law in this kingdom. | 40 George III c.39 |
| 1800 | Juries | For the better regulation of trials by jury in the courts of king's bench, common pleas and exchequer during term, and in the sittings after term. | 40 George III c.72 |
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