706 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE
registrar for registration the company shall be deemed to have
continued in existence as if its name had not been struck off; and
the court may by the order give such directions and make such
provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons
in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company
had not been struck off.
(7) A notice to be sent under this section to a liquidator may be
addressed to the liquidator at his last known Place of business, and
a letter or notice to be sent under this section to a company may be
addressed to the company at its registered office, or, if no office has
been registered, to the care of some director or officer of the company,
or, if there is no director or officer of the company whose name and
address are known to the registrar of companies, may be sent to
each of the persons who subscribed the memorandum, addressed to
him at the address mentioned in the memorandum

Property of dis-
solved company
to be bona
vacantia.

296. Where a company is dissolved, all property and rights
whatsoever vested in or held on trust for the company immediately
before its dissolution (including leasehold property but not including
property held by the company on trust for any other person) shall,
subject and without prejudice to any order which may at any time
be made by the court under the two last foregoing sections of this
Act, be deemed to be bona vacantia and shall accordingly belong
to the Crown, or to the Duchy of Lancaster or to the Duke of Cornwall
for the time being, as the case may be, and shall vest and may be
dealt with in the same manner as other bona vacantia accruing to
the Crown. to the Duchy of Lancaster or to the Duke of Cornwall

Sthecial Provisions as to Stannavies.
Attachment of ~~ 297. When several companies are in course of liquidation by or

So She to con- under the supervision of the court exercising the stannaries jurisdic-

ai tion and acting under ‘that jurisdiction, if it appears to the judge

stannaries court. that a person who is a contributory of one of the companies is also
a creditor claiming a debt against one of the other companies, the
judge may (if after inquiry he thinks fit) direct that the debt, when
allowed, shall be attached, and payment thereof to the creditor
suspended for a time certain as a security for payment of any calls
that are or may in course of liquidation become due from him to
the company of which he is a contributory; and the amount thereof
shall be applied to such payment in due course:

Provided that such an order of attachment shall not prejudice
any claim which the company so indebted to the creditor may have
against him by way of set off, counterclaim, or otherwise, or any
lawful claim of lien or specific charge on the debt in favour of any
third person.

Preferential pay- 298. In the application to companies within the stannaries of the
ments in provisions of this Act with respect to preferential payments. the
stannaries cases. . . »

following modifications shall be made ‘—