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Discharge may extend to Process for Contempt in Nonpayment of Money, and to Costs incurred by Creditor, but subject to Taxation.
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XIII. And be it enacted, That the Discharge of any Prisoner adjudicated upon under the Authority of any Act now in force for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland, or any Act which may hereafter be passed for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, shall and may extend to all Process issuing from any Court of Equity for any Contempt of such Court for Nonpayment of Rent or Money, or of Costs, Charges, or Expences in any such Court, including the Costs of any Commitment or Attachment from which the Party shall have been discharged so far as regards the Contempt, but shall have been left liable to the Costs; and that in such Case the said Discharge shall be deemed to extend to all Costs which such Prisoner shall be liable to pay in consequence or by reason of such Contempt, or on purging the same; and that every Discharge, so adjudicated as aforesaid, as to any Debt or Damages of any Creditor of such Prisoner, shall be deemed to extend also to all Costs incurred by such Creditor, before the filing of such Prisoner’s Schedule, in any Action or Suit brought by such Creditor against such Prisoner for the Purpose, for the Recovery of the same; and that all Persons as to whose Demands for any such Costs, Money, or Expences any such Person shall be so adjudged to be discharged, shall be deemed and taken to be Creditors of such Prisoner in respect thereof, and entitled to the Benefits of all the Provisions made for Creditors by the said Act or any future Act, subject nevertheless to such ascertaining of the Amount of the said Demands as may be had by Taxation or otherwise, and to such Examination thereof as is in the said last-mentioned Act or as shall be in any future Act provided in respect of all Claim to a Dividend of such Insolvent’s Estate and Effects.
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