Stannaries Act 1855

VII Process in Suits against non-resident Defendants.

In Suits commenced on the Equity Side of the said Court for Causes relating to Mines and Minerals in the Stannaries, or to Shares, Interests, or Adventures therein, whereof the said Court has cognizance, in which it may be necessary or expedient to sue or to join as Defendant a Person holding or claiming to hold any Share or Interest in an Adventure in Mines or Minerals worked within the Stannaries, or being an Agent of the said Adventurers, who cannot be found within the Jurisdiction of the said Court; and in all Cases where any Person who shall have commenced any Suit or entered an Appearance in any; Suit in the said Court, or shall have come in as Creditor, Claimant, or Purchaser, or otherwise submitted to the Jurisdiction thereof, cannot, by reason of his Person or Goods being out of the said Jurisdiction, be made amenable to the Process of the Court; and in all Cases where any Party to such Suit shall have died or become bankrupt or insolvent, and his personal Representatives or Assignees, or any of them, who may be necessary Parties to the Continuance of the Suit, shall be out of the said Jurisdiction, it shall be lawful for the Court, upon special Application in that Behalf, to order that Service of any Notice, Order, Summons, Warrant, or other Process shall be deemed good Service on any such Person, Representative, or Assignee respectively in any Part of England or Wales, and, if need be, to order an Appearance to be entered for the Person served; arid thereupon it shall be lawful to take such Proceedings and to make such Order or Decree as if the Service had been made within the said Jurisdiction.