Execution Act 1844

XX Provisions of 3 G.4 c.39 extended to the Assignees of Insolvent Petitioners.

Arid be it enacted, That the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Warrants of Attorney to confess Judgment, shall extend to the Assignee or Assignees of every Petitioner for Protection from Process whose Estate shall, after the Expiration of Twenty-one Days next after his Execution of such Warrant of Attorney, or giving of such Cognovit actionem as therein mentioned, be vested in an Assignee or Assignees under the Provisions of the said recited Act and of this Act or of either of them, as if the said Act so intituled as aforesaid had been expressly herein enacted; and every such Warrant of Attorney, and Judgment and Execution thereon, and every such Cognovit actionem, and Judgment entered up thereon, and Execution taken out on such Judgment, as are declared by the said last-mentioned Act to be fraudulent and void against the Assignees mentioned therein, shall be deemed equally fraudulent and void against the Assignee or Assignees of the Estate of such Petitioner, and such Assignee or Assignees shall be entitled to recover back and receive, for the Use of the Creditors of such Petitioner, all the Monies levied and Effects under or by virtue of any such Judgment or Execution.