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COMPANIES ACT, 1929

651

out of his assets in due course of law, any money due from
the bankrupt in respect of his liability to contribute to the
assets of the company; and

there may be proved against the estate of the bankrupt the
estimated value of his liability to future calls as well as ca’
already made.

162.—(1) The husband of a female contributory married before Provision as to
the date of the commencement of the Married Women’s Property married women.
Act, 1882, or the Married Women’s Property (Scotland) Act, 1881, $48 Vict.
as the case may be, shall, during the continuance of the marriage, 4+ 7 4s Vict.
be liable, as respects any liability attaching to any shares acquired ©“
by her before that date, to contribute to the assets of the company
the same sum as she would have been liable to contribute if she had
not married, and he shall be a contributory accordingly.

(2) Subject as aforesaid, nothing in this Act shall affect the
provisions of the Married Women’s Property Act, 1882, or the
Married Women’s Property (Scotland) Act, 1881.

(ii) Winping Up By THE COUR:
Jurisdiction.
163.—(1) The High Court shall have jurisdiction to wind up any
company registered in England.

(2) In the case of a company whose registered office is situate
within the jurisdiction of the Chancery Court of the County Palatine
of Lancaster or the Chancery Court of the County Palatine of
Durham, the palatine court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with
the High Court to wind up the company.

(3) Where the amount of the share capital of a company paid
up or credited as paid up does not exceed ten thousand pounds, the
county court of the district in which the registered office of the
company is situate shall, subject to the provisions of this section,
have concurrent jurisdiction with the High Court to wind up the
company.

Jurisdiction to
wind up com-
panies registered
in England.

{4) Where a company is formed for working mines within the
stannaries and is not shown to be working mines beyond the limits
of the stannaries or to be engaged in any other undertaking beyond
those limits, or to have entered into a contract for such working or
undertaking, the court exercising the stannaries jurisdiction shall,
whatever may be the amount of the capital of the company and
wherever the registered office of the company is situate, have con:
current jurisdiction with the High Court to wind up the company.

(5) The Lord Chancellor may by order exclude a county court
from having jurisdiction under this Act, and for the purposes of that
jurisdiction may attach its district, or any part thereof, to any other
county court, and may revoke or vary any such order.