Contempts In Equity Act, 1841, 25 of 1841 (Rep., Act 8 of 1868)

Section III. And it is hereby enacted, that the discharge of any prisoner adjudicated upon under the authority of

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

III. And it is hereby enacted, that the discharge of any prisoner adjudicated upon under the authority of an Act passed in the 9[th] G. 4 C. 73, intitule "an Act to provide for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the East Indies until the 1[st] day of March 1833," last continued by an Act passed in the 3 and 4 Vic. C. 80, shall and may extend to all process in Equity issuing from Her Majesty's Supreme Courts for any contempt of such. Court for non-payment of money, or of costs, charges of expenses in any such Court, 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 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 prisoners for the purpose of 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 last mentioned Act, subject, nevertheless, to such ascertaining 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, provided in respect of all claim to a dividend of such Insolvent's Estate and Effects.

Source: India Code