In addition to the said purchase money, compensation, or satisfaction, and before the promoters of the undertaking shall become absolutely entitled to any such F1right , interest, or charge, or to have the same merged or extinguished for their benefit, they shall, when the right to any such F1right , interest, or charge shall have been disputed by the company, and determined in favour of the party claiming the same, pay the full expences of any proceedings at law or in equity for the determination or recovery of the same to the parties with whom any such litigation in respect thereof shall have taken place; and such expences shall, in case the same shall be disputed, be settled by the proper officer of the court in which such litigation took place.