# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Abridge, v. Armstrong

By an act of Tynwald passed in the year 1777
it is enacted that all arrests for debt or
contract without specially by virtue of any
process issuing from the courts or
Magistrates of this Isle shall be granted
on the affidavit in writing of the party
complainant or some proper person in
that behalf which Affidavit may be
taken by the clerk of the Rolls or other
person duly authorized [above line: by the court or Magistrate] for that purpose
and by an act of the same year it
is enacted that the court of chancery
shall have full power to make such
rules or orders from time to time
touching its own practice and
proceedings and for the better con:
duct of Suitors and Practitioners
as shall be found expedient"

The Court of Chancery has
from time immemorial in causes
depending in the court issued
commissions to take the answers of
Defts and the Depositions of Witnesses
residing abroad. -

The Court of Chancery

S 09707/8/14

AP 143-15