Stannaries Act 1855

IV Plaintiff may join several Adventurers in One Petition, &c.

In all such Suits against Adventurers for Contribution, it shall be lawful for the Plaintiff to join several Adventurers in One Petition for Recovery of their several Contributions, and for the Court to make One Decree for Payment and One Order for Sale of Shares, and to enforce Payment by separate Process of Execution against each Defendant, if need be ; and where the Defendants or any of them shall put in separate Answers, it shall be lawful for the Court to direct that all or any of the "Matters in issue be heard and tried at the same Time; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge or affect the Right of the Plaintiff in such a Suit, as now exercised, to proceed against Adventurers residing or being out of the Jurisdiction of the Court upon a Service on the Mine itself, substituted by Order of the Vice-Warden for personal Service ; but in such Case the Plaintiff shall not be entitled to any other or further Remedy for Recovery of the Arrears of Contribution in the Vice-Warden's Court from a Defendant so served than he had before the passing of this Act.