The Four Courts Marshalsea (Ireland) Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 95) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated three prisons for debtors in Dublin — the Four Courts Marshalsea, the Sheriffs Prison, and the City Marshalsea — into a single prison, the Four Courts Marshalsea, and made further provision for its regulation.
Subsequent developments The Four Courts Marshalsea itself was later closed by the Four Courts Marshalsea Discontinuance Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 21), owing to the small and diminishing number of prisoners confined there in proportion to its staff.
The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 19), which came into force on 20 June 1892.
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