A POINT IN BANKRUPTCY LAW.
( 13 V TgLEGIUPH.) WELLINGTON, Jdsb 7. la the Bankruptcy Court, to-day, a solicitor for a bankrupt said he had been notified by counsel for the creditors that charge* would be preferred against thfl bankrupt, and thnt the court would be nsked to direct that the bankrupt, having been guilty of misdemeanor, should be prosecuted and committed for trial. He asked His Honour to say that bankrupt muat be prosecuted m the Magistrates Court m tbe übuil way. Mr Justice Richmond snid that was his opinion. He objected to taking the place of the mngijtrate. The parties should follow the ordinary course of criminal law, and not cotne to that court to invoke the summary jurisdiction. He could not decline the jurisdiction but if the creditors had a case ngainrt tho bankrupt which could be prosecuted by indictment, it was very undesirable that they should aleo attempt to prosecute summarily. He might have to try a man he had himself committed for trial.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4560, 8 June 1889, Page 3
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167A POINT IN BANKRUPTCY LAW. Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4560, 8 June 1889, Page 3
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