Two ACTS 

I. An ACT for Reviving Two Statutes lately Expired, and making them Perpetual; And for Avoiding Unnecessary Suits and Delays.  
II. An ACT for Redress of Inconveniences for want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas, or Absenting Themselves, upon whose Lives Estates do Depend.    
DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, on Ormonde-Key. 1695.   

An Act for Reviving Two Statutes lately Expired, and making them Perpetual; And for Avoiding Unnecessary Suits and Delays. CHAP. VII.  
WHEREAS in a Parliament held in the Seaventeénth and Eighteénth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, the several Statutes hereafter mentioned were Enacted (vizt.) One Act, Entitled, An Act to prevent Delays in Extending Statutes, Judgements, and Recognizances. And one other Act, Entitled, An Act to prevent Arrests of Judgements, and Superseding Executions: Both which Acts are now Expired; but by Experience have been found to be good and profitable Laws for this Kingdom, and fit to be Revived and made Perpetual.  
Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That the said several Statutes, and every of them, and all and every the Branches and Clauses in them, and every of them Contained are hereby Revived, and shall from henceforth be, Remain and Continue in Force and Effect for Ever.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Actions Real and Personal, or mirt, the Death of either Party between the Verdict and the judgement shall not be hereafter alleged for Error, so as judgement be Entered within two Terms after such Verdict.   

An Act for Redress of Inconveniencies for want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas, or Absenting Themselves, upon whose Lives Estates do Depend. CHAP. VIII.  
WHEREAS Divers Lords of Manors and divers have used to Grant Estates by Lease for one or more Life or Lives, or else for Years Determinable upon one or more Life or Lives; And it hath often happened that such Person or Persons for whose Life or Lives such Estates have been Granted have gone beyond the Seas, and absented sheriff 〈◊〉 for many Years, that the Lessors and Revertioners cannot find out whether such Person or Persons be Alive or Dead, by reason whereof such Lessors and Revertioners have been held due of Possession of their, Tenements for many years after all the Lives upon which such Estates depend are dead, in regard that the Lessors and Revertioners when they have brought ●●sons for the Recovery of their Tenements, have been put upon it to prove the Death of their Tenants when it is almost Impossible for them to discover the same. For Remedy of which Mischief to frequently happening to such Lessors or Revertioners.  
Be it Enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 〈…〉 and Consent of the Goods 〈…〉, and the Commons in this 〈…〉, and by the Authority of the same, That if such Person or Persons for whose Life or Lives such Estates have been or shall be granted, as aforesaid, shall remain beyond the Seas, or elsewhere absent themselves in this Realm by the space of Seven Years together, and no sufficient and Evident proof be made of the Lives of such Person or Persons respectively in any Action Commenced for the recovery of such Tenements by the Lessors or Revertioners, their Heirs or Assigns: The judges before whom such Action shall be brought shall direct the jury to give their Verdict as if the person so remaining beyond the Seas, or otherwise, absenting himself were dead.  
And be it further Enacted, That in any such Action, wherein the Life or Death of any such Person or Persons shall come in question betweéns the Lessor or Revertioner and the Tenant in possession; it shall and may be Lawful for the Lessor or Revertioner to take Exception to any of the jurors returned for the Trial of that Cause, that the greatest part of the Real Estate of any such juror is held by Lease for Life or Lives, who upon proof thereof shall be set aside as in case of other Legal Challenges.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall be Evicted out of any Lands or Tenements by Virtue of this Act, and afterwards if such person or persons upon whose Life or Lives such Estate or Estates depend, shall return again from beyond the Seas, or shall on proof in any Action to be brought for recovery of the same, be made appear to be Living, or to have been Living at the time of the Eviction, that then and from thenceforth the Tenant or Lesseé who was outed of the same, his or their Executors, Administrators or Assigns shall or may Re-enter, Repossess, Have, Hold and Enjoy the said Lands or Tenements as in his or their former Estate for and during the Life or Lives or so long Term as the said person or persons, upon whose Life or Lives the said Estate or Estates depend shall be Living, and shall also upon Action or Actions to be brought by him or them against the Lessors, Revertioners or Tenants in possession, or other persons respectively, which since the time of the said Eviction received the Profits of the said Lands or Tenements, recover for Damages the full Profits of the said Lands or Tenements respectively, with Lawful Interest for and from the time that he or they were outed of the said Lands or Tenements, and kept and held out of the same by the said Lessors, Revertioners, Tenants, or other Persons who after the said Eviction Received the Profits of the said Lands or Tenements, or any of them Respectively, as well in the Case where the said Person or Persons, upon whose Life or Lives such Estate or Estates did Depend, are, or shall be Dead at the time of bringing the said Action or Actions as if the said Person or Persons were then Living.  
FINIS.