Judicial Committee Act 1843

VIII Orders, &c. may be enforced by Sequestration against certain Persons pronounced contumacious and in Contempt.

And be it enacted, That in all Causes of Appeal to Her Majesty in Council from Ecclesiastical Courts, and from Admiralty or Vice Admiralty Courts, in which any Person duly monished or cited or required to comply with any lawful Order or Decree of Her Majesty in Council, or of the said Judicial Committee or their Surrogates, and neglecting or refusing to pay Obedience to such lawful Order or Decree, or committing any Contempt of the Process under the Seal of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, shall reside out of the Dominions of Her Majesty, or shall have Privilege of Peerage, or shall be a Lord of Parliament or a Member of the House of Commons, it shall be lawful for the said Judicial Committee or their Surrogates to pronounce such Person to be contumacious and in Contempt, and after he shall have been so pronounced contumacious and in Contempt to cause Process of Sequestration to issue under the said Seal of Her Majesty against the Real and Personal Estate, Goods, Chattels, and Effects, wheresoever lying within the Dominions of Her Majesty, of the Person against or upon whom such Order or Decree shall have been made, in order to enforce Obedience to the same, and Payment of the Expences attending such Sequestration, and all Proceedings consequent thereon, and to make such further Order in respect of or consequent on such Sequestration, and in respect to such Real and Personal Estate, Goods, Chattels, and Effects sequestrated thereby, as may be necessary, or for Payment of Monies arising from the same to the Person to whom the same may be due or into the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals for the Benefit of those who may be ultimately entitled thereto.