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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1746

the Return of the said original Writ or Process, or at or before the said third Court, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, or his or their Attorney, upon affidavit being made and filed in the proper Court, of the personal service of such Writ or Process as aforesaid (which said affidavit shall be filed in the said Court, and for the filing whereof there shall be paid the sum of one shilling to the proper Officer and no more) to enter an Appearance for such Defendant or Defendants, and to proceed thereon as if the Defendant or Defendants had entered his, her or their Appearance to such Action or Actions, any Law or Usage in the said Courts of Great Sessions or of Assize to the contrary notwithstanding.

3. And whereas Doubts have arisen whether An Act made in the fourth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act that all Proceedings in Courts of Justice within that part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, shall be in the English Language, doth extend to the said Courts of Great Sessions and other Courts in the Principality of Wales, the said Courts of Great Sessions, and the said other Courts in the said Principality not being therein mentioned: For the removing and obviating of such Doubts, be it further enacted, and it is hereby declared, That the said last mentioned Act, and all Clauses and Directions therein, shall be deemed and taken, and is and are hereby directed to be deemed and taken to extend to the said Courts of Great Sessions, and all other Courts within the said Principality of Wales, in as large, ample and beneficial Manner as if the said Courts of Great Sessions, and the said other Courts in the said Principality had been particularly mentioned and expressed in the said Act.

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20 George 2, c. 42, s. 3.

WALES to be included in England.

And it is hereby further declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Cases where the Kingdom of England, or that Part of Great Britain called England, hath been or shall be mentioned in any Act of Parliament, the same has been and shall from henceforth be deemed and taken to comprehend and include the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed.