✨ Sequestration Order
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.
MIDDLE DISTRICT.
In the matter of the "Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862," and
In the matter of the Petition of Arthur Devery and Luke Green, late of Deep Creek, in the Province of Marlborough, in New Zealand, Storekeepers, trading under the style or firm of Devery and Green.
Upon reading this Petition, the Schedule thereto, and the affidavit of the petitioners, and upon hearing Mr. Pitt of Counsel for the petitioners:
It is ordered, that sequestration of the estate and effects of the said petitioners be granted to John Sharp, Registrar of Supreme Court at Nelson, and that the said petitioners shall appear in person for examination before the said Court at Nelson on such day in the month of November next, as shall be appointed for that purpose by the said John Sharp, and also, that a meeting of the Creditors of the said petitioners shall be held in the Court House in Nelson aforesaid, on such day in the month of July next as shall be appointed by the said John Sharp for the purpose of recommending a trustee or trustees of the estate and making suggestions as to winding up the estate of the said petitioners:
And it is further ordered that in the meantime, and until such examination, the persons and estates of the said petitioners shall be protected from arrest, execution, or other legal process, such protection however to cease and to be of no effect should any creditor of the said petitioners or either of them be in a position to issue a Writ of arrest against either of them in accordance with the Writ of Arrest Act, to the satisfaction of a Judge of the said Court, or of a Registrar thereof in the absence of a Judge:
Provided however, that such cesser of protection shall, in the event aforesaid extend only to affect such one of the said petitioners as shall have rendered himself liable to arrest as aforesaid.
By the Court.
[L.S.]
Printed for the Provincial Government by the Proprietors of the ‘Marlborough Press,’ Government Printers for the time being to said Government.
Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1865, No 113
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⚖️ Sequestration Order for Devery and Green
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementDebtors and Creditors Act, Supreme Court, Sequestration, Marlborough
- Arthur Devery, Subject of sequestration order
- Luke Green, Subject of sequestration order
- John Sharp, Registrar of Supreme Court at Nelson
- Mr. Pitt
- John Sharp, Registrar of Supreme Court at Nelson