APPEARANCES

26. Tliat the clerk of the records shall keep in his office a book to be called "■ The Appearance Book ; " and every person served with a conditional order on a petition, or other person having any interest in the lands thereby sought to be affected, or any charge or incumbrance upon the same, or claiming to be interested in any manner in the subject matter of such petition, Nvhether as owner, tenant, incumbrancer, or otherwise, may, by himself or a solicitor, enter an appearance in such petition matter ; and no person (save the petitioner or a purchaser) shall be entitled to appear or be heard before the judge in any proceeding in such matter until he shall have entered such appearance ; and such appearance may be either general or special ; and every such general appearance shall be in the form following :

In the Landed Estates Court, Ireland.

iE. F. of in the countv [ov city] of merchant [or as his proper description may be], in person [or by J. S., of solicitor]

appears in this matter, for the purpose of being served with notice of all proceedings therein.

Dated this day of 18 .

And every appearance must be signed by the person appearing, or by his solicitor ; and in case such appearance shall be by the party in person, the following words shall be added thereto : " And the said E. F. names the house, number in

sU'eet, in the city of Dublin, as the place at which all

notices are to be served on hhn. " And every special appearance

shall be in llie like form, save that instead of the words " all

proceedings therein, " shall be inserted words specifying the

particular proceeding or proceedings with notice of Nvhicli the party entering such appearance desires to be served, such as " the settlement of the rental, " or " the settlement, vouching, or final hearing of the schedule of incumbrances, " or " the payment or application of the residue, " or otherwise as the case may require; and in every certificate of appearance the officer shall distinguish between general and special appearances, and shall give a copy of the particular purpose for which each special appearance shall purport to have been entered.

27. That the party entering any such appearance shall be entitled, unless the judge shall otherwise direct, to be served with notice of, and to appear upon, all proceedings in the matter, or such specified proceedings, as the case may be, until he shall make an entry in the Appearance Book withdrawing his appearance ; but the costs occasioned by entering a general appearance shall be paid by the party entering the same, unless the judge shall otherwise direct ; and the judge, if he shall see occasion, may order that any appearance which shall have been entered may be vacated, or that any general appearance may bo converted into a special appearance for any purpose or purposes which the judge may think fit : Provided always, that notwithstanding anything herein contained, it shall be the duty of the solicitor having the carriage of any matter to give notice of any motion or proceeding therein to any person whom he shall know to have an interest in the subject matter of such motion or proceeding, or who ought to have an opportunity of appearing and being heard thereon, although such person may not have entered an appearance in the matter.