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Payment into the Court of Chancery of legacies to infants or persons beyond seas. 45 Geo. 3 c. 94
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38. Any legacy or sum of money to which any person who is an infant or absent beyond seas may be declared entitled by any chairman in any suit or matter may be ordered by the chairman to be paid to the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-three of the Probate and Legacy Duties (Ireland) Act, 1814, and the person ordered to pay the same shall, within such time as the chairman shall direct, produce to the Clerk of the Peace of the county the certificate of the Accountant General of the payment of such money; and if default shall be made in such payment, the chairman may direct a warrant of execution to issue to the sheriff of the county, who, by such warrant, shall be empowered to levy or cause to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person a sum of money equal in amount to the sum which he was ordered to pay to the said Accountant General, with the costs incurred by reason of such default, and the sum so levied shall be paid to and be receivable by the said Accountant General under the direction of the chairman; and all amounts so paid or transferred into the Court of Chancery, with any dividends thereon, may be invested and may be paid out or transferred to the person or persons entitled thereto, or otherwise applied for his or their benefit, as the Lord Chancellor shall direct.
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