The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT or REVIEW IN BANKRUPTCY, JULY 29'

EX PARTE MOLYNEUX, IN RE HUMBERSTON ; AND
EX PARTE BRANCKER, IN THE SAME.
The first petition sought to increase a proof for ire
to £3,036; the latter sought to reduce it to £200•
questions arose relative to a shipment of cotton frow
Charleston on the order of Humberston and Frodsha°l;
of Liverpool. Bankruptcy intervening, an attempt 8
made to stop the goods in transitu, which was succeli
fully resisted, on the ground of the delivery having Ile,
completed on shipment in a vessel hired by the pilt"o'
sers. The dispute on this matter has given rise to
action at law, and several trials ensued. uld
The Chief Judge saw no reason why the seller sh°
not be entitled to payment for his goods. The procee;
ings on the actions relative to the stoppage in transi
were no longer material.
Proof enlarged, costs out of the estate of Humberol
and Frodsham.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL.—Lord Brougham's bills
entitled " An act to amend an act passed in the sth a 3
6th years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitle 3
' An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,' and to liTbit,
the power of arrest upon final process," has been bronto
down from the Lords, and read a second time in the C? 1/110;
mons. The notice to creditors in the Gazette, precle
to presenting petitions for protection from process 110',,,t
the sth and 6th Victoria, chapter 116, is, by the nro
clause, entirely dispensed with, another form of pelting
to the Court of Bankruptcy for protection from procV
to be verified by affidavit, being laid down in the soiled o,
of the bill. Forthwith, after the filing of the petition, ti
tice thereof is to be given to the creditors, and advert`"
in the Gazette, and a public sitting of the court appoint
for for the first examination of the petitioner, and for,
choice of creditors' assignees. The property of the Flesit
tioner to vest in the assignees pro tern, by virtue of ti'4,
appointment. Upon the petition being filed the cotnrn'of
sinner is to have the like power touching the seizure g,
the property of such petitioner (except in certain case",
and the examination of persons, as in cases of bankruPtc'et
All prisoners in execution at the time of passing this I.
upon any judgment in any action for the recovery 001
debt, may be petitioners for protection from process, tr,
such petitioners shall be protected, by an interim orn!„,
from detention in prison, upon any judgment for therif
covery of any debt mentioned in their schedules ; an",e
so detained, the commissioner may order their dischsni,
Petitioners in custody, and not entitled to be discharg,.eiv
may be brought up by warrant. Wearing apparel, W°t•he
ing tools, &c., of the value of £2O, are exempted froso'
operation of this act. Final orders under the act t° prof'r
tect the person of the petitioner from process in resge-e
the sums or debts particularly mentioned in the 03-,11,'
viz., from process in respect of the debts due to the cre. of
tors named in the schedule, or in respect of the clainho
any other persons not known to such petitioner at of
time of making the final order, who may be endorsees e,
holders of any negotiable securities set forth in such „ty
dole. Prisoners in execution at the time of filing
titions may be discharged by the commissioner, if detar_!,,
for any debt in respect of which they are protected fr:'s
A discretionary power is Ole
process by the final order.
to the commissioner to adjourn the consideration of 9;4
sine ' No debtor to be imprisoned for 030 6
final order dee. for
than 12 calendar months for any debt contracted be ad,
filing his petition, in case the final order shall be refus'ol
or shall not be made, or in case the protecting order 0;r
not be renewed. Persons making out fraudulent silo
doles will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, anncl,llS6. tail/
to three years' imprisonment and hard labour. TP"(0
clause distinctly abolishes arrest 9 • r
upon final process
debts wherein the sum recovered shall not exceen„ie c•
exclusive of costs. Persons in execution at the
passing this act, in •
ton for any debt where the sum shall not exceeo Olt
shall be discharged on application to of one ° heir
a judge their
superior courts. Persons fraudulently obtaining 03,
discharge may, however, be retaken in execution: 0.
estate of the debtors discharged to continue liableisao
they had not been taken in execution. Bytbe 38th conl‘'
the Lord Chancellor is empowered to issue Rfiat f
ruptcy against a trader, having filed a declaration °A,
solvency, on the petition of the trader himself. Tit 0
the chief enactments of the bill, which, if passe,eool
commence and take effect on the Ist day of
their ~.0
next—that is to say, on the eve of Michaelmas ter"-

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HONESTY !—Many men there are who, for the w,,lfir
would not take a purse, yet who would steal whatis of
higher value and importance. An instance pagoda
reached us, where a firm of long standing, Messrs.,‘ ov
LAND and SONS have acquired high reputatiou--s. hrtbef
name," in short, for the value of those articles schi'c,:roisf
have discovered and prepared for the toilet.
the success which Messrs. Rowlands had achiele,tioasi,
the reputation which had attached to their Prnufrasu.
other parties by a new and despicable species of those
have concocted some trashy compounds, resembling led
prepared by Messrs. Rowlands, and by adopting the 00,
coollysame nenamdeeasv,ouarndto closely copying thectohpeyirintgrasii
as dtvreuratllenic,ece:Soi
SAR OIL," " real KALYDOR," &C., thongh a Ods, s•
the signature, which is not that of Messrs. Rowlannotlll6
once convinces the purchaser that he is buying itatiot”
real production, but a spurious and trashv ,r`?o Os'
which may be, and in fact is, of the worst pernici
tore.—See advt.