The name seems to be derived from the fact that the court was originally intended for causes arising out of the imports and exports passing through.

[4] The court also had jurisdiction to try all actions of ejectment between landlord and tenant wherein the annual rent of the premises in question did not exceed £100, and where no fine was reserved or made payable.

[8][9] The practice and procedure were regulated by the Rules of 1903, and were similar to those of the High Court.

c. xxi) is sometimes called the Liverpool Court of Passage Amendment Act 1853.

[27] In case of the death, sickness, or unavoidable absence of the presiding judge, the recorder of Liverpool could act in lieu of him.

Such rules were not to be invalid by reason of extending or otherwise affecting the jurisdiction of the Court of Passage.

[31][32] These rules practically assimilated the procedure of the court to that of the King's Bench and Admiralty Divisions of the High Court,[33] except that summary judgment under Ord 14 could not be obtained against a defendant who was a domestic or menial servant, a labourer, a servant in husbandry, a journeyman, an artificer, a handicraftsman, a miner, or any person engaged in manual labour.

[34] The rules also contained tables of court fees and of solicitors' costs, and a scale of allowances to witnesses.

[41] An appeal upon any issue tried in the Court of Passage was allowed under the same circumstances and rules as in the case of a trial at nisi prius.

[45] There was an appeal from all orders, decisions and directions of the registrar and the presiding judge.

Section 44(2) conferred a power to make regulations to provide for the compensation of persons who suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments attributable to the effect of section 44(1)(b) or to the abolition of the Liverpool Court of Passage.