Recognisances taken out of court

Where the has fixed, as any recognisance, the amount in which the principal and sureties, if any, are to be bound, the recognisance, notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act, need not be entered into before such court, but may be entered into by the parties before a justice of the peace or the clerk or, where any of the parties are in prison, before the keeper of such prison, and thereupon all the consequences of the law shall ensure, and the provisions of this Act shall apply as if the recognisances had been entered into before the court.