to all process issuing from any Court of Equity for any con tempt of such Court for non-payment of money, or of costs, charges, or expenses in any such Court; and that, in such case, the said discharge shall be deemed to extend to all costs which such prisoner shall be liable to pay in consequence or by reason of such contempt, or on purging the same; and that every discharge, so adjudicated as aforesaid, as to any debt or damages of any creditor of such prisoner, shall be deemed to extend also to all costs incurred by such creditor, before the filing of such prisoner's schedule, in any action or suit brought by such creditor against such prisoner for the purpose of the recovery of the same; and that all persons as to whose demands for any such costs, money, or expenses any such persons shall be so adjudged to be discharged, shall be deemed and taken to be creditors of such prisoner in respect thereof, and entitled to the benefits of all the provisions made for creditors by the said Act, or any future Act; subject nevertheless to such ascertaining of the amount of the said demands as may be had by taxation or otherwise, and to such examination thereof as is in the said last-mentioned Act, or as shall be in any future Act provided in respect of all claim to a dividend of such insolvent's estate and effects.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That where the process of contempt is for the non-performance of an act, for example, the not answering the plaintiff's bill, and the bill in equity to which the insolvent is a party is taken pro confesso, and he has not paid the costs of the contempt, or the insolvent has fully answered the plaintiff's bill or interrogatories, or otherwise cleared his contempt, except as far as regards the payment of the costs, or it has become in event unnecessary for him to do the act for the non-performance of which he was committed or attached, the Court of Equity, in which the suit is depending, shall, upon the application of the party in contempt, discharge him from the same, except as to the costs thereof, for which he shall remain in custody, and such costs shall be deemed within the provision lastly herein before contained, and he shall be dischargeable therefrom, and from the process of contempt, in like manner as if the process of contempt were for non-payment of money or costs; provided that this order or regulation shall not weaken any of the other powers by this Act given, nor shall any thing herein contained lessen the operation of the said Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

XVIII. And be it enacted, That the powers and authorities given by this Act to the Court of Chancery, or to the Lord

Chancellor of Great Britain, shall and may be exercised as well by such Lord Chancellor as by (and they are hereby given to) the Lord Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal of Great Britain for the time being, and to the Master of the Rolls and Vice-Chancellor respectively; but the reports of the Warden of the Fleet, and of the Masters visiting there, shall be made to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners only, who alone are to make orders thereupon for discharge or relief of prisoners.

XIX. And be it further enacted, That such of the rules hereinbefore directed to be adopted by the Court of Chancery as are numbered from five to twenty, both inclusive, shall be adopted by the Court of Exchequer, which Court shall, for the purposes of this Act, draw upon the suitors' fund of that Court.

XX. And be it further enacted, That the powers and authorities contained in such last-mentioned rules, and given by this Act to the Lord Chancellor, shall and may be exercised in like manner by, and are hereby given to his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and may be exercised by the said Court, or by the Lord Chief Baron thereof; but such periodical visits only to be made to the Fleet prison, in regard to prisoners for contempt of the said Court, as the Lord Chief Baron shall direct, and by such officer or officers of the Court as he shall nominate.

XXI. And be it further enacted, That wherever this Act, in describing or referring to any person, or any conveyance, transfer, matter, or thing, uses the word importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, the same shall be understood to include and shall be applied to several persons as well as one person, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, and several conveyances, transfers, matters, or things respectively, as well as one conveyance, transfer, matter, or thing respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.

2 WILL. IV. c. 33.

An Act to effectuate the Service of Process issuing from the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in England and Ireland respectively. [23rd May, 1832.]

WHEREAS great inconvenience and delays of justice arise from the defect of jurisdiction in Courts of Equity to effectuate the service of their process in such parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as are not within the jurisdiction of the said respective courts; for remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer in England respectively, if they shall so think fit, upon special motion of the complainant or complainants in any suit which has been or shall be instituted in such Courts respectively, concerning lands or tenements or hereditaments situate or being within that part of the United Kingdom called England or Wales, to order and direct that service, in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and in the Isle of Man respectively, of any subpoena or subpoenas, letter missive or letters missive, and of all subsequent process to be had thereon, upon any defendant or defendants in such suit then residing in such part of the said United Kingdom or Isle of Man in which he, she, or they shall be so served, shall be deemed good service of or be made upon such defendant or defendants, upon such terms and in such manner and at such time as to such Courts respectively shall seem reasonable; and that thereupon it shall and may be lawful for such courts respectively to proceed upon such service so made as aforesaid as fully and as effectually as if the same had been duly made within the jurisdictions of such Courts respectively.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer in Ireland respectively, if they shall so think fit, upon special motion of the complainant or complainants in any suit which has been or shall be instituted in such Courts respectively, concerning lands or tenements or hereditaments situate or being within that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, to order and direct that service in any part of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Ireland and in the Isle of Man respectively, of any subpoena or subpœnas, letter missive or letters missive, and of all subsequent process to be had thereupon, upon any defendant or defendants in such suit then residing in such part of the said United Kingdom or Isle of Man in which he, she, or they shall be so served, shall be deemed good service of or be made upon such defendant or defendants, upon such terms and in such manner and at such time as to such Courts respectively shall seem reasonable; and that thereupon it shall and may be lawful for such Courts respectively to proceed upon such service so made as aforesaid, as fully and as effectually as if the same had been duly made within the jurisdiction of such Courts respectively.

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That along with such subpoena or letter missive served under any such order as aforesaid of the said Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer of England and of Ireland respectively, a copy of the prayer of such complainant's bill shall be served upon every such defendant; and provided also, that no process of contempt shall be entered upon any such proceedings as hereinbefore mentioned, nor any decree made absolute in any of the said Courts in England or Ireland respectively, without the special order of such court, upon special motion made for such purpose: Provided also, that nothing in this Act shall be held to make it compulsory upon the complainant or complainants in any suit in any of the said respective Courts to serve with process or bring before such Courts respectively any party or parties, person or persons, further or otherwise than such complainant or complainants are now by law or the practice of such Courts respectively required to do.

4 & 5 WILL. IV. c. 82.

An Act to amend and extend an Act of the Second Year of His present Majesty, to effectuate the Service of Process issuing from the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in England and [15th August, 1834.]

Ireland.

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the second year of the reign of 'bis present Majesty, intituled An Act to effectuate the Ser'vice of Process issuing from the Courts of Chancery and Ex

'chequer in England and Ireland respectively, certain provisions 'have been made for rendering more effectual the process of 'the said Courts respectively in the cases therein mentioned: 'And whereas it is expedient to amend and extend the said 'Act in the manner hereinafter provided:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all the provisions contained in the said Act relating to suits, instituted in the said Courts respectively concerning lands, tenements, or hereditaments situate in England or Wales or in Ireland respectively, shall be extended and applied to all suits instituted in the said Courts respectively concerning any charge, lien, judgment, or incumbrance thereon, or concerning any money vested in any government or other public stock, or public shares in public companies or concerns, or concerning the dividend or produce thereof; and the provisions in the said Act authorising the said Courts respectively to direct that the service in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland, or the Isle of Man, respectively, of any subpoena or subpoenas, letter missive or letters missive, and of all subsequent process to be had thereon, upon any defendant or defendants in such suit, then residing in such parts of the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man in which he, she, or they should be so served, should be deemed good service of or be made upon such defendant or defendants, upon such terms, and in such manner, and at such time as to such Courts respectively should seem reasonable, and that thereupon it should and might be lawful for such Courts respectively to proceed upon such service as fully and effectually as if the same had been duly made within the jurisdictions of such Courts respectively, shall be and they are hereby extended to any defendant or defendants in any such suit or suits as hereinbefore mentioned, who shall appear by affidavit to be resident in any place, specifying the same, out of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said Courts respectively, on motion in open Court of any of the complainants in any such suit, founded upon an affidavit or affidavits, and such other documents as may be applicable for the purpose of ascertaining the residence of the party, and the particulars material to identify such party and his residence, and also specifying the means whereby such service may be authenticated, and especially whether there are any British officers, civil or military, appointed by or serving under his Majesty, residing at