THIS

Lord Chancellor Lord CAMPBELL.

Order made

ex parte, under

21 & 22 Vict.

rolment of au

HIS was an application, ex parte, under the sects. 12 Before The and 13 of the statute 21 & 22 Vict. c. 60, which provide that orders made in the Court of Session in Scotland, in the course of winding up a company, shall be enforced in England by the Courts which would have had jurisdiction if the registered office of the company c. 60, ss. 12, were established in England, and in such manner in all 13, for the inrespects as if such order had been made by the Court order of the required to enforce the same in the case of a company Court of Seswithin its own jurisdiction; and that the last-mentioned land directing Court shall cause such order to be registered, or shall payment by take such other steps in the matter as may be requisite of a sum of for enforcing the order, as if it were the order of the money, or in Court enforcing the same. The present application was ment. to have an order of the Court of Session directing cer

sion in Scot

contributories

default attach

tain

D.F.J.

1859.

In re WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND.

tain shareholders in the above-mentioned company to pay a sum of money as contributories, or in default. the attachment of their persons and their estate and goods might be inrolled in this Court.

The order had been passed and entered at the Rolls.

Mr. C. Swanston, in support of the application, said that it was mentioned to the Court as being the first case which had occurred under the act, and on account of the act not expressly directing inrolment.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, after conferring with the Registrar as to the propriety of the application being made ex parte, made the order.

In another case of an order made in the matter of the same company, his Lordship declined to direct the inrolment until the order had been passed and entered, but this having been done, the order was subsequently made.

Nov. 2.

In the Matter of M'KEAN'S PATENT.

HIS was a petition to have the great seal affixed to

Before The THIS

Lord

Chancellor

Lord

a patent. The petition was answered in September for November 2, and on the 3rd September notice Where a peti- was given to the Respondent, who did not file any affidavits in opposition till the morning of November 2.

CAMPBELL.

tion to have

the great seal Mr. affixed to a patent had been filed, and the Respondents served with notice two months before the first day of Michaelmas Term, for which day the petition was answered, and the Respondents only filed affidavits on the morning of that day: Held, that they could not be read; and the patent was ordered to be sealed.