Execution Act 1844

XXVI Final Order may extend to Process for Contempt in Nonpayment of Money, and to Costs incurred by Creditor, but subject to Taxation.

Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Final Order for Protection from Process shall and may extend to all Process issuing from any Court for any Contempt of Court, Ecclesiastical or Civil, for Nonpayment of Money or of Costs or Expences in any such Court; and that in such Case such Final Order shall be deemed to extend also to all Costs which the Petitioner would be liable to pay in consequence or by reason of such Contempt, or on purging the same; and that every Final Order as to any Debt or Damages of any Creditor of the Petitioner shall be deemed to extend also to all Costs incurred by such Creditor before the filing of the Petitioner's Schedule in any Action or Suit brought by such Creditor against the Petitioner for the Recovery of the same ; and that all Persons as to whose Demands for any such Costs, Money, or Expences as aforesaid the Final Order obtained by the Petitioner shall be adjudged to extend shall be deemed and taken to be Creditors of such Petitioner in respect thereof, and entitled to the Benefit of all the Provisions made for Creditors by the said recited Act or by this 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 herein provided in respect of all Claims to a Dividend of such Petitioner's Estate and Effects.