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Stannaries Act 1855

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XExecution of Decrees, &c. in Equity Suits in or out of Stannaries.

All Decrees and Orders made in Causes on the Equity Side of the Court of the Vice-Warden, whereof the said Court has cognizance, for Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money, Costs, Charges, or Expenses, shall and may be enforced by a Writ or Writs of Fieri facias or Capias, within the Limits of the Jurisdiction of the said Court, which Writs shall be in the Form, as near as may be, of the like Writs issued to enforce Decrees or Orders for Payment of Money made by the High Court of Chancery, and be executed in like Manner by the Bailiffs of the Vice-Warden's Court; and where any Decrees or Orders, whether for Payment of Money or otherwise, cannot be conveniently or effectually enforced by the ordinary Process of the Court of the Vice-Warden within the Jurisdiction thereof, it shall be lawful for the High Court of Chancery, or for any Judge thereof, sitting in Court or at Chambers, upon the Application of a Party entitled to the Benefit of such Decree or Order, and Production of a Certificate from the Registrar of the Court of the Vice-Warden under the Seal of the Court of the said Decree or Order, or of such Part thereof as cannot be so enforced as aforesaid, and a satisfactory Affidavit of the Ground of the Application, to make the said Decree or Order, or so much thereof as cannot be enforced, a Decree or Order of the High Court of Chancery; and thereupon such Decree or Order, or such Part thereof as aforesaid, shall and may be enforced by such Proceedings and Writs as would or might have been taken or issued if the same had been originally made by the High Court of Chancery, and all the reasonable Costs of and consequent upon such Certificate and Application shall and may be recovered as if the same had been and were Part of such Decree or Order; and where the said Decree or Order of the Vice-Warden is for Payment of a Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fifty Pounds, it shall be lawful for the Party entitled to the Benefit of the said Decree or Order to enforce Payment thereof in the Manner herein-before provided in the Case of a Judgment on the Common Law Side of the Court for Recovery of a Debt or Damages not exceeding the said Sum of Fifty Pounds: Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall affect or prejudice the Power of the Vice-Warden to enforce Decrees or Orders by Process of Attachment within the Jurisdiction of his Court where the same may be now lawfully exercised, or to order the Sale of Shares or Interests in Mines or Adventures in Cases wherein such Sale may now be made by Order of the said Court.

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