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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-act-1838/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-act-1838/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/1-2/110",
  "legislation_title": "Judgments Act 1838",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-act-1838",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Decrees and orders of courts of equity, &c. to have effect of judgments.",
  "text": "All decrees and orders of courts of equity, and all rules of courts of common law . . . whereby any sum of money, or any costs, charges, or expences, shall be payable to any person, shall have the effect of judgments in the superior courts of common law, and the persons to whom any such monies, or costs, charges, or expences, shall be payable, shall be deemed judgment creditors within the meaning of this Act; and all powers hereby given to the judges of the superior courts of common law with respect to matters depending in the same courts shall and may be exercised by courts of equity with respect to matters therein depending . . . and all remedies hereby given to judgment creditors are in like manner given to persons to whom any monies, or costs, charges, or expences, are by such orders or rules respectively directed to be paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1874 (c. 96) and Mental Health Act 1959 (c. 72), Sch. 8, Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/1-2/110/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:09.763549+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}