Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

Venue to be stated only in Margin of Summons and Plaint.

LXII. The Venue in any Personal Action may, except as herein-after stated, be laid in any County which the Plaintiff thinks proper, and the Name of such County shall be stated in the Margin of the Summons, and shall be taken to be the Venue intended by the Plaintiff, and no Venue shall be stated in the Body of the Summons or in any subsequent Pleading; provided it shall be lawful for the Court or a Judge to order such Venue to be changed by an Amendment of such Summons and Plaint to any other County or County of a City or Town in which the Trial can be more conveniently or properly had, on special Grounds only, and not merely because the Cause of Action accrued in any particular Place or County.